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FD.io VPP supports and has tested most DPDK drivers (some have not been completely tested). FD.io VPP also has some native drivers most notablly VMXNET3 (ESXI), AVF (Intel), vhostuser (QEMU), virtue, tapv2, host-interface and Mellanox.
Use Cases
Routers, Universal CPE etc.
FD.io VPP supports entry hardware options from number of hardware vendors for building Customer Premise Equipment devices. FD.io VPP based commercial options are available from vendors such as Netgate with TNSR, Cisco with the ASR 9000, Carrier Grade Services Engine and many more.
These implementations are accelerated with DPDK Cryptodev for whole platform crypto.
Broadband Network Gateway
Load Balancer
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FD.io VPP has a growing list of network traffic management and security features to support gateway uses cases such as Broadband Network Gateway.
Load Balancer
FD.io VPP has a rich set of plugin’s to enhance its capabilities. Cloud load-balancing is just one of number of feature enhancing plugins available to the end user. For example: Google Maglev Implementation, Consistent Hashing, Stateful and stateless load balancing, Kube-proxy integration.
Intrusion Prevention
Fd.io VPP has four different Access Control List technologies; ranging from the simple IP-address whitelisting (called COP) to the sophisticated FD.io VPP Classifiers.
More Information
For more information in the FD.io Project please visit FD.io or FD.io Documentation. For more information on FD.io VPP please visit https://fd.io/vppproject/vpptech/.
Continuous System Integration and Testing (CSIT)
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