The Market Need
The market for SD-WAN has grown rapidly, as companies have recognized that it allows them to provide more capacity at better cost, overcoming bandwidth constraints and gaining far greater control over their networks. SD-WAN also offers enhanced security, simplified network visibility, and auto-provisioning and management.
As today’s SD-WAN deployments become more advanced, they are taking advantage of multi-gigabit throughput to enable hub-and-spoke deployments, including telco central offices, data center-to-data center, and multiple dwelling units (MDUs). Traditional software-based SD-WAN infrastructure cannot handle the required levels of throughput for such network designs, but replacing the entire SD-WAN infrastructure with an advanced, high-bandwidth version is costly and inflexible to future changes.
Our Offering
Ethernity Networks provides an ideal solution for SD-WAN data plane acceleration through its FPGA-based SmartNICs, which can reduce time-to-market and improve cost efficiency.
Our ACE-NIC family of FPGA SmartNICs supports the strict low-cost requirements of telco access and edge networks, offering significant computational power and data path offloads performed on FPGA. When used for SD-WAN data plane acceleration, they enable unique distribution over multiple networks.
By using Ethernity’s FPGA-based SmartNICs, customers can benefit from a low-cost, high-capacity, yet fully programmable solution, which offers a comprehensive set of networking capabilities that perfectly match the requirements of SD-WAN. Our SmartNICs offer high performance through hardware acceleration, while reducing costs and enabling enterprise VPN access, making it an ideal solution for service providers in their move toward cloud-based edge appliances.
The following are some of the networking capabilities Ethernity’s ACE-NIC family of SmartNICs provides for SD-WAN deployments:
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High-speed IPSec and other tunneling protocol offload and termination
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Policing, monitoring, OAM to support SLA at wirespeed
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Up to 80Gbps of deterministic throughput with extremely low latency
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Fast failover detection
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Deterministic hierarchical QoS
- Ideal for MDU and campus SD-WAN connectivity and for hub aggregation high-speed connections requiring 10G/25G/40G interfaces
- DPDK accelerating workloads for easy integration with existing SD-WAN software
- IPSec high-speed tunnel offload and termination
- Load balancing and efficient per flow distribution
- Up to 1M flows with filtering, counters, and monitoring
- H-QoS and policing per user based on L3/L4 and tunnel fields
SD-WAN Topology for Higher-Rate Aggregation Nodes
