LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ELC-E Europe 2014

The OpenStack community is building automation to create connectivity based on pre-built scenarios of Neutron configuring Linux functions. This creates an open networking environment with NFVI for VMs to run multi-vendor virtual network functions (VNFs). It also prevents single vendor solution lock-in and avoids building proprietary OpenStack plugins of Neutron. With DPDK and packet processing software to create NFVI, it is possible to keep this openness while both introducing performance and avoiding Neutron plugins for proprietary technologies. In this presentation, Vincent will show how DPDK applications can be combined on the host and guest of the network, and compute nodes of OpenStack scenarios, in order to sustain high performance for north-south and east-west traffic that is required for NFV solutions. 100 Gbps of packet processing throughput examples will be demonstrated.