This version of the Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition platform supports accelerated data plane. Both control and user plane workloads can take advantage of this capability and achieve high throughput, reduced latency, and scale in performance.
Scope VNF components that require high network throughput can achieve high data plane performance by using the advanced switching fabric that is introduced with the NSX-T Data Center N-VDS and Edge cluster acceleration in Three-Pod configurations.
Design Objectives The Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition platform includes NSX-T Data Center as the virtualized networking component. NSX-T Data Center leverages DPDK techniques to support data plane intensive VNFs efficiently. The NSX-T Data Center networking stack increases the CPU efficiency while preserving the existing functionality of the VMware NFV infrastructure. The new high-performance switching and enhanced platform awareness delivers advanced networking architecture that is transparent to VNF providers, delivers kernel-based security, deterministic resource allocation, and linear scalability.