Netdev 0x12, THE Technical Conference on Linux Networking

In the long run, networking chip giant and one-time server chip wannabe Broadcom might regret selling off its “Vulcan” 64-bit Arm chip business to Cavium, soon to be part of Marvell. The ThunderX2 processors based on the Vulcan designs have been tweaked by…

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AT&T, SKT, Intel and the OpenStack Foundation announce a new Open Infrastructure Project, Airship, which allows operators to manage changes via a cloud native platform.

A high performance layer 4 load balancer. Contribute to facebookincubator/katran development by creating an account on GitHub.

A robust and scalable load-balancing solution is composed of 3 parts: ECMP routing, stateless L4 and stateful L7.

Buffering requirements for routers have been a much debated and ultimately unresolved topic since the beginning of the Internet. This paper presents a technical foundation for network designers to assess buffering requirements based on applications as well…

I am pondering how to think about packet rates in the 100G era. How should we be designing and optimizing our software? Consider these potential performance targets: A: 1x100G @ 64 Mpps. B: 1x100G...

ODP is designed as an abstraction layer for hardware accelerators for SoCs. Many of these SoC vendors also support DPDK. DPDK has been embraced by the wider networking community. However, there are key fundamental differences between ODP and DPDK. One of…