Agilio LX SmartNICs

Netronome® Agilio® LX 40 and 100GbE SmartNICs incorporate two PCIe Gen3 x8 interfaces, 8GB of low-latency DDR3 memory, and 96 highly threaded flow processing cores that run accelerated Linux, Open vSwitch and DPDK code. Efficient use of dual-PCIe with multi-threaded memory and hardware accelerator access enable significantly greater NUMA performance in multi-socket systems. The following SmartNIC configurations are supported:

Agilio LX 2x40GbE
SmartNIC Full Height, 2x PCIe Gen3x8
- 2x QSFP 40GbE
- Netronome NFP-6480
- 8GB of DDR3DRAM @ 1866Mhz w/ECC
Agilio LX 1x100GbE
SmartNIC Full Height, 2x PCIe Gen3x8
- 1x CXP 100GbE
- Netronome NFP-6480
- 8GB of DDR3DRAM @ 1866Mhz w/ECC

Features

Datapath Offload: VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, tunnel encapsulation and de-encapsulation; Flexible packet parsing; Flexible exact and wild-card match/action policy offloads; Flow tracking in hardware for cut-through acceleration; Stateless and stateful load balancing; 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; Receive-Side Scaling (RSS); Single-Root IOV (SR-IOV); DPDK, zero-copy, kernel bypass; Hierarchical three-level traffic management

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

Benchmarks

Agilio LX 2x40GbE SmartNICs utilize the Agilio software solution to deliver higher application performance by accelerating Open vSwitch (OVS) and DPDK based networking datapaths while freeing up valuable CPU cycles. For network-port-to-VM traffic, it delivers 40Gbps line rate throughput at 128B packets while consuming less than 2 CPU cores. It can reach 50Gb/s line rate for 1000B packets. For network-port-to-network-port traffic that is more suitable for many service node applications, it delivers 80Gb/s line rate throughput at 500B packets while consuming less than 2 CPU cores. The Agilio LX 1x100GbE SmartNIC solution delivers 100Gb/s line rate throughput at 500B packets while consuming less than 2 CPU cores.

Applications

The Agilio LX SmartNIC products are designed for service node applications such as:

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)

Intrusion Detection/Prevention (IDS/IPS)

Load Balancing (LB)

Documentation

Product Briefs: Agilio LX 2x40GbE; Agilio LX 1x100GbE

White Papers: Hardware Acceleration for Network Services

Technology Briefs: Express Virtio – XVIO

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Testimonials

“NTT Communications has been at the forefront of advancing SDN technologies with commercial use for our cloud computing, datacenter and network services for many years. We’re evaluating Netronome’s solution of processors, software and NICs and expect to use them to extend our SDN offering into the Cloud-VPN Gateway with close collaboration with NTT Innovation Institute, Inc.”

- Yukio Ito, Senior Vice President of Service Infrastructure at NTT Communications

“The PLUMgrid platform provides secure Virtual Network Infrastructure for OpenStack across different hypervisor for public and private clouds. Using Netronome’s solution, PLUMgrid’s multitenant Virtual Network Domain solution easily extends over an MPLS backbone, across multiple locations under SDN control.”

- Pere Monclus, Founder and CTO, PLUMgrid

“With virtualization technology, the networking industry is embedding service-awareness directly into the infrastructure, to increase flexibility, utilization, and operating efficiencies. By combining Qosmos Network Intelligence Technology and Netronome’s FlowEnvironment and accelerated FlowNICs, COTS servers can provide the most advanced stateful L4-L7 inspection technology at the throughputs and latencies that the industry requires.”

- Jerome Tollet, CTO, Qosmos

“Procera’s Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) library uses sophisticated techniques to accurately identify dynamic applications and protocols. Maintaining a small x86 processing and memory footprint is imperative for high performance DPI applications. With the standard APIs available in Netronome’s FlowEnvironment software, the NAVL engine and Netronome’s FlowNICs work in tandem to provide unparalleled classification accuracy with high performance in standard servers.”

- Shawn Sweeney, Director of Product Management, Procera