Netronome prepares cards for SDN acceleration

Source: Netronome

Netronome has unveiled 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards (NICs)  to accelerate data-plane tasks of software-defined networks.

Dubbed FlowNICs, the cards use Netronome's flagship NFP-6xxx network processor (NPU) and support open-source data centre technologies such as the OpenFlow protocol, the Open vSwitch virtual switch, and the OpenStack cloud computing platform.

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Netronome uses its network flow processor for OpenFlow

Part 2: Hardware for SDN

Netronome has demonstrated its flow processor chip implementing the OpenFlow protocol, an open standard implementation of software-defined networking (SDN).

"What OpenFlow does is let you control the hardware that is handling the traffic in the network. The value to the end customer is what they can do with that"

David Wells, Netronome

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