Intel: Streamlining Data Traffic Flow and Storage

The upward-spiralling growth of customer data traffic demands that today’s service providers run much of their traffic through virtual machines (VMs). The traditional data centre networks weren’t designed to handle the new traffic flow but this transition to virtualized data centres has changed the structure of the traffic and communication paradigms. Brocade, HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), and Intel developed industry-leading NFV solutions for service providers and enterprises that want to build agility and automation into their networks using the globally-applicable European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) reference architecture as a starting point. The solution components, implemented as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in Virtual Customer Premise Equipment (vCPE) and Virtual Cloud Equipment (vCE) environments include:

Brocade 5600 vRouter: A software-based solution that enables the functionality from hardware-based routers to be deployed directly on hypervisors.

Brocade vRouters use the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK): Helps each forwarding plane to be allocated to multiple Intel® Xeon® processor or Intel® AtomTM processor cores. It takes a completely flexible software-centric approach to packet processing, enabling extremely high processing performance on industry-standard high-volume servers.

The Brocade SDN Controller (BSC): A commercial distribution of the OpenDaylight Project’s SDN controller, which controls physical (VNFi) and virtual networking devices from all major vendors.

Brocade vADC (Application Delivery Controller): Designed to make applications faster, reliable, and secure, it works within cloud environments and easily integrates into an application stack.

Brocade VDX switches and Brocade VCS Fabric technology for the VNFi physical layer: It is the foundation for high-performance connectivity in Ethernet fabric, storage, IP network, and IP storage environments, enabling a low total cost of ownership (TCO) and fast return on investment (ROI).

HPE Helion Platform: Supports a variety of cloud apps while meeting the required service-level agreements for security, governance, and privacy Platform in the network management and orchestration (MANO) layer.