What role FPGA server co-processors for virtual routing?
Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 1:04PM Part 2: Accelerating virtual routing functions using FPGAs
IP routing specialists have announced first virtual edge router products that run on servers. These include Alcatel-Lucent with its Virtualized Service Router and Juniper with its vMX. Gazettabyte asked Alcatel-Lucent's Steve Vogelsang about the impact FPGA accelerator cards could have on IP routing.
Steve Vogelsang, IP routing and transport CTO, Alcatel-Lucent
The co-processor cards in servers could become interesting for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV).
The main challenge is that we require that our virtualised network functions (vNFs) and SDN data plane can run on any cloud infrastructure; we can’t assume that any specific accelerator card is installed. That makes it a challenge.
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