Agilio CX SmartNICs

Netronome® Agilio® CX 10GbE, 25GbE and 40GbE standard low-profile PCIe SmartNICs are designed for general-purpose x86 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rack servers, fitting needed power and form factor requirements. The solutions come with fully qualified Agilio Software compliant with popular operating systems, enabling easy qualification and quick deployment by OEMs and end users. The following SmartNIC configurations are supported:

Agilio CX 2x10GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile, PCIe Gen3x8
- 2x SFP+ 10GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
Agilio CX 2x25GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile, PCIe Gen3x8
- 2x SFP28 25GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
Agilio CX 1/2x40GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile, PCIe Gen3x8
- 1/2 QSFP 40GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
Agilio CX 40GbE
OCP Open Cloud Server SmartNIC
- Samtec SEAM connector
- Netronome NFP-4000
- Open CloudServer OCS Peripheral Cards

Features

Datapath Offload: VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, tunnel encapsulation and de-encapsulation; Flexible packet parsing; Flexible exact match-action policy offloads; Flexible wild card match policy offloads; Up to 2M flows with on-board memory; Up to 500K tunnels; Stateless and stateful load balancing; Per-flow metering and QoS; Programmable support for custom tunnel types; Includes checksum and RSS for tunnels; Flow tracking in hardware for cut-through acceleration; Per-flow metering and QoS

Acceleration of Compute-intensive Functions: Bulk cryptography for AES-GCM-128 cypher suites and key sizes; Sophisticated hashing and atomic operations; Per-flow real-time statistics

Network Acceleration and Offload: TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload; Intelligent interrupt coalescence; Single-Root IOV (SR-IOV); DPDK, zero-copy, kernel bypass; Hierarchical three-level traffic management; VMQ support; Enhanced QoS for virtual functions; DPDK, zero-copy, kernel bypass, packet direct; Hierarchical three-level traffic management

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu; Hypervisors: Linux KVM

Benchmarks

Netronome Agilio CX SmartNICs with Agilio Software have been benchmarked with modern data center applications such as Open vSwitch (OVS)-based virtual networking and forwarding, virtual evolved packet core and data center zero-trust stateful security. For example, with OVS applications, Agilio CX SmartNICs reclaim over 80% of the server CPU resources previously dedicated to OVS, while at the same time delivering 5X or more of the packet data throughput to more applications.

Learn more:: Open vSwitch (OVS); OVS Benchmarking

Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)

Virtual EPC

Applications

Agilio CX solutions are suitable for data center server applications such as:

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) or Platform as a Service (PAAS): Deployments with SDN-based virtual network overlay control and vSwitch offload for improved CPU efficiency and application performance

NFV Deployments: Using COTS servers and Open vSwitch-based virtualized infrastructure, e.g., vEPC, vBS, C-RAN

Data Center Zero-Trust Stateful Security: Deployments with SDN-based agile security and data protection policies that follow applications in VMs

Network Telemetry and Analytics: Identify application performance bottlenecks and boost compute and storage server utilization

Documentation

Product Briefs: Agilio CX 2x10GbE; Agilio CX 2x25GbE; Agilio CX 1x40GbE; Agilio CX 2x40GbE; Agilio OVS Software; Agilio OVS Firewall Software

White Papers: OVS Benchmarking; Virtual EPC; Agilio OVS Software Architecture

Technology Briefs: Express Virtio – XVIO

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Testimonials

“Virtual switches have become an integral part of data center networking, however performance becomes a significant impediment at 10Gb/s and higher data rates. Netronome Agilio CX SmartNICs save significant CPU cycles while improving performance for server-based networking features such as virtual tunnel end points and policies per VM or tenant, enabling higher service levels at lower cost.”

- Chen Li, SDN Project Manager at China Mobile

“With the NFV market entering production phase, efficient operations require a clean demarcation between VNF services and SDN/NFV infrastructure networking layers while being able to meet the performance levels needed for the next phase of NFV realization. Agilio SmartNIC technology from Netronome enables Ericsson to satisfy mission-critical enterprise workloads and meet cost-per- bit challenge of 5G and fiber access evolution.”

- Francois Lemarchand head of NFVI product strategy at Ericsson

“Programmable networking data path implementation in hardware can enable differentiated performance and service levels on a per NFV application or per customer basis. The P4 data path programming language, as supported by Netronome’s Agilio CX SmartNICs and related development tools, is simple and hardware agnostic, allowing for rapid and future-proofed networking datapath innovation.”

- Elena Romero, Head of Product Line SDN & Policy Control at Ericsson

“The Juniper Networks Contrail vRouter, one of the key components of the Contrail SDN solution, is ideal for orchestrating and automating cloud networks. The Contrail vRouter and its ability to provide highly scalable secure virtual networks, combined with SmartNICs such as Netronome’s Agilio CX, allows the acceleration of a broad set of networking functions and the ability to evolve rapidly with changing needs.”

- Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Software at Juniper Networks.

“Proven and robust cloud management with Mirantis OpenStack enables service providers and enterprises to accelerate their SDN and NFV adoption,” said “Netronome’s Agilio platform supports standard OVS interfaces, helping to maintain a high level of cloud management user experience while delivering hardware acceleration and resulting efficiencies.”

- Kamesh Pemmaraju, Vice President of Product Marketing, Mirantis

“Netronome’s Agilio SmartNICs provide an excellent platform to showcase Tieto’s expertise in NFV solutions. The Tieto and Netronome collaboration has demonstrated a 5X performance improvement over conventional solutions for virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) while preserving the benefits of virtualization on COTS hardware.”

- Nicholas Hamblin, Head of Cloud and IP Business Unit at Tieto

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Features

Benchmarks

Applications

Documentation