Netronome has developed a domain-specific architecture (DSA) that allows customers to build accelerators for networking and storage applications in data center and edge computing markets. This delivers efficient and high-performance heterogeneous solutions when paired with multi-core processors. Netronome’s technology can be purchased as hardened IP blocks to build custom SoC silicon devices, as SoC devices, SmartNICs or Smart Edge platforms and related software.
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The Open vSwitch (OVS) is the most popular server-based virtual networking switch, and likely the most deployed switch overall after the Broadcom Trident hardware switch chips used in TOR switches. In fact, based on a recent survey from the OpenStack community, OVS is used in more than 60% of their installations.
At the recent Open Compute Summit (OCP) and the Open Networking Summit (ONS), the overarching themes were “data center hardware must be commodity” and “software continues to eat the world.” The OCP prides itself as a pioneer, having introduced the notion of open hardware with the goal to “commoditize” hardware. Large data center operators (Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Rackspace) have contributed hardware rack designs to the OCP.
It's really exciting to see many of the world's leading service providers accelerating their movement towards wide scale deployment of network functions virtualization (NFV). Just last month at the OpenStack Summit in Austin, AT&T's Sorabh Saxena stated, "Our goal is to virtualize and cloud-enable 75% of our target network architecture using this software centric approach by 2020."
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Quentin Monnet is a senior software engineer at Netronome, where he works on advanced technologies at the driver level, such as the software pieces of eBPF offload, and modestly contributes to several open source projects. Before joining Netronome, he was part of the Research & Development team at 6WIND, and was involved in European research projects that focused on fast, flexible and stateful packet processing for SDNs. Quentin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Paris-Est, France.