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SmartNIC offload solution for 5G User Plane Function

By leveraging Napatech’s SmartNIC solution, 5G core software vendors maximize the performance of their User Plane Function (UPF) subsystem: • Delivering industry-leading users-per-server capacity through the complete offload of the UPF data plane; • Supporting 100 million concurrent flows and 85 million packets per second throughput on a single SmartNIC; • Minimizing the cost-per-user for service providers deploying 5G infrastructure; • Simplifying and optimizing the architecture for centralized monitoring of remote Packet Core infrastructure. • UPF represents the highest compute workload within the 5G packet core

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Bare Metal Platform Solution

By leveraging servers configured with Napatech Smart Network Interface Card (SmartNIC) solutions, data center operators can deliver virtualized, cost-effective bare metal cloud platforms: • Achieving a level of performance that would otherwise require more expensive severs with higher-end CPUs; • Boosting their networking performance without consuming server CPU resources; • Ensuring the deployment agility and scalability normally associated with Virtual Server Instances (VSIs). Optimizes the allocation of host CPU cores for running applications and services instead of networking workloads; • Full support for both FPGA-based and Data Processing Unit (DPU)-based SmartNICs; • Delivers best-in-class vSwitch performance to accelerate enterprise, cloud and telecom workloads.

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Virtual Switch Offload Solution

Napatech SmartNIC offload of virtual switching maximizes the Return on Investment (RoI) for edge and cloud data centers • Optimizes the allocation of host CPU cores for running applications and services instead of networking workloads; • Full support for both FPGA-based and Data Processing Unit (DPU)-based SmartNICs; • Delivers best-in-class vSwitch performance to accelerate enterprise, cloud and telecom workloads.

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Programmable NICs Will Empower the Future of the Network

Networks are under unprecedented demand when it comes to performance and uptime. This is largely due to the rise of emerging technologies like AI, cybersecurity deployment, hyperscale architectures and cloud services – but it’s also been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic because people are on the network more than ever before. This is where SmartNICs, and specifically programmable SmartNICs, can play a key role. Organizations that use SmartNICs are reaping the benefits of this increased demand due to their ability to accelerate traffic and boost agility through programmability. SmartNICs will play an even more important role in networks as they evolve and expand.

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5G Among the Innovations Driving the Need for New Network Architecture

5G, cloud and edge computing, and the IoT – any one of these monumental technology developments could be considered one of the biggest networking evolutions in human history. And yet we’re experiencing all of them simultaneously. As a combined force, they are radically changing the way people communicate – and the way networks are built to support them. While each of these is unique in its own way, one thing they share is the need for a new class of network for the communications infrastructure that underpins the vision.

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Virtual Switch Offloading Maximizes Data Center Utilization

Find out why virtual switches are being used to support IoT devices, and how leveraging a SmartNIC streamlines the switching process. What you’ll learn: • Saving costs in the data center. • Using a vSwitch to increase ROI. • How offloading the vSwitch to a SmartNIC frees up cores to improve efficiency.

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