Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

Industry Sector

Edge Cloud, Telco

Business driver

VPC, 5G UPF can use SmartNIC to accelerate the performance.

Business use cases

•  Demonstrate SmartNIC accelerated Edge stack
  • OVN-K8s in host and OVS offloaded in SmartNIC
• Software ecosystem support for SmartNIC platform
• Kubernetes support for networking acceleration and SmartNIC

Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective

• Common drivers for x86 and Arm
• Full DPDK support
• Overlay support (VxLAN, GRE)
• Hardware offload for Linux tc
• Crypto offload drivers

Business Cost – Target Operational Objective

• OVN/Open vSwitch
  • Open vSwitch offload on SmartNIC platform
• Kubernetes
  • SmartNIC for Kubernetes
  • Huge page support
  • Node Feature Discovery
  • Related CNI projects：Multus, Cillium, SR-IOV  and OVS-DPDK
• Storage:
  • NVMeoF interface

Security need

• Crypto offload drivers

Regulations

N/A

Other restrictions

N/A

Additional details

N/A

Case Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

Blueprint Family - Proposed   Name

Use Case

VPC, 5G UPF

Blueprint proposed Name

Initial POD Cost (capex)

VPC: 1 Rack with 2 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC

UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC

Scale & Type

In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud

Applications

Power Restrictions

SmartNIC: 35W

Infrastructure orchestration

• Bare Metal Provisioning ：Ansible 
• Kubernetes Provisioning ：KuD
• Host OS Level: 
  • Network: cilium/OVN
• SmartNic Arm cores Level:
  • Network: cilium-BPF/ovs-vswitchd/ovs-dpdk/
• Docker for containers and Kubelet for VMs

SDN

Workload Type

• Containers

Additional Details

SmartNic features:

• Needs to provide mechanism to recover from the system crashes remotely.
• Support PXE protocol
• Secure boot/Secure Key Storage