Silicom C5010X Data Center SmartNIC with
Link-Virtualization™ Software
2×10/25G
Powerful Intel®-based IPU with Napatech software
The Silicom C5010X Data Center SmartNIC is a full-height, halflength 2×10/25GbE SFP28 PCIe card with an Intel® Stratix® 10DX FPGA and an Intel® Xeon® D SoC. The unique combination of FPGA and full fledged Xeon CPU on a PCI card allows for unique offload capabilities. Coupled with Napatech Link-Virtualization™ software, which provides cutting edge virtualization technology and data processing capabilities, the C5010X is the perfect solution for virtualized cloud, cloud-native or bare-metal server virtualization with tenant isolation within the Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) ecosystem.
Full Open vSwitch (OVS) offload
Using the standard OVS-DPDK distribution, Link-Virtualization software adds powerful hardware acceleration to the virtual switch and megaflow caching – ensuring that only new and unknown flows are resolved in the SoC or host CPU. Offloading the virtual switch to the SmartNIC has several benefits, including:
• Freeing up valuable CPU cycles for your critical applications – rather than wasting cycles on infrastructure
• Providing deterministic latency and jitter – regardless of packet
size and number of flows
• Increasing throughput
Furthermore, virtio-net (as opposed to SR-IOV) enables Live Migration of VNFs without being tied to the SmartNIC hardware. In other words, Link-Virtualization provides hardware offload of software equivalent switching – without imposing any restrictions on the system.
Bare Metal for Cloud Service Providers
The C5010X with Link-Virtualization software can also serve as a bare-metal offload SmartNIC with full SDN support – exposing 16 virtio-net and 16 virtio-blk to the host and with full tenant isolation. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) can deploy the C5010X with Link-Virtualization software to offer customers access to bare-metal servers, while retaining full SDN capabilities of the infrastructure.
Virtual Machine monitoring
Napatech’s VM-to-VM monitoring solution provides insight into both N-S and E-W traffic, where packets can be mirrored for analytics, SLA monitoring or regulatory purposes.
Highlighted features
• OpenStack support
• Full OVS-DPDK offload (with virtIO 1.1 vDPA)
• Bare Metal for CSPs (with virtio-net and virtio-blk)
• Live Migration/Live Backup of running VNFs
• Run infrastructure on a single CPU core or fully offloaded to the C5010X
Open vSwitch
DPDK
OpenStack
Compatible Virtualization Software
Link-Virtualization Software
Link-Virtualization Software offloads and accelerates the
Open vSwitch (OVS) dataplane to provide increased network performance
and better CPU efficiency with lower complexity.
PERFECT PERFORMANCE
For any link speed at any time
COMPLETE PORTFOLIO
For 10/25G port speeds
PLUG & PLAY
Out of the box solution
SCALE INSIDE
Multiple FPGA SmartNICs in one server
SCALE OUTSIDE
Synchronize multiple servers
POWERFUL
Accelerate your application
VIRTUALIZATION
Support for Virtualized Environments
MIX SPEEDS
Multiple speeds in one server
BUNDLE APPLICATIONS
More powerful server usage
Used across industries
Telecom operators and Cloud-based data centers
With the increasing number of telecom carriers and CSPs migrating to 25G solutions, the need to continually upgrade network performance is growing.
Cloud-based data center network architectures, 5G/edge computing and the Internet of Things (IOT) are driving an incredible scale in bandwidth, number of users, and network flows. These factors are driving the explosive growth in the 25GbE server-class Ethernet adapter market with programmable SmartNICs offering the highest CAGR in all segments in the Ethernet NIC market
The C5010X SmartNICs deliver complete platforms to address numerous demanding networking and security workloads including hardware offloladed virtual switching to accelerate NFV, and 4G/5G mobile applications This flexible solution save rack space and reduce the overall solution cost by offloading virtual switching workloads returning valuable CPU cycles to the general purpose CPU for application processing.
When the IPU-based C5010X Programmable SmartNIC is selected as the hardware platform, the OVS-DPDK data plane again runs on an FPGA, while the OVS-DPDK slow path and the VIM run on a general-purpose processor also located on the IPU. This 100% offload of the slow path and VIM ensures that all the host CPU cores are available for running virtualized services and applications, enabling the provisioning of “bare metal” clouds.
This is the optimum solution for an IT use case where compute resources must be allocated for use by multiple tenants, for example in support of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business model. Tenant VMs have full access to the entire host CPU in order to obtain deterministic performance, optimized security and full isolation for their private workloads.
Bare metal configurations are widely used in applications such as public and private cloud data centers, financial services, healthcare and retail locations.
Silicom C5010X is designed with an Intel® Stratix® FPGA and an Intel® Xeon-D® SoC
and powered by Napatech Link-Virtualization software
Ultimate tech specs
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Product: | Data Rates included: |
NTC5010X-2×10/25 | 2×10/25 Gbps |