Cloud Enabling DPDK and FD.io VPP - Ray Kinsella, Intel

Cloud Enabling DPDK and FD.io VPP - Ray Kinsella, Intel

Communication Service Providers are embracing Cloud Native technologies, such as Kubernetes. Attracted by the perception of more efficient utilization of platforms resources and more dynamism in application deployments. They are in turn advocating, encouraging and incentivizing their own suppliers, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers and Independent Software Vendors to follow suit.

This session will talk through some of the underlying trends here to understand why this is the case. It will then talk through recent and future improvements to FD.io VPP and DPDK to embrace the next wave of network innovation, the cloudification of the network. It will then describe in detail those new features of FD.io VPP and DPDK to enable Network Functions and Network Infrastructure to make more efficient use of system resources and for more dynamic applications.