A Portal for Developing Network and Network Security on Intel Hardware and Software
Intel hardware is ubiquitously and abundantly available to develop solutions and innovations. Make full use of Intel’s technologies to unleash your imaginations. Intel’s unique and breadth of technologies spans across hardware and software, data plane and control plane, security and AI, packet processing and inspection, packet routing and switching, and more.
Developing Network and Security Appliances
Intel offers a breadth of hardware technologies from processors, accelerators, memory, ethernet adapters, to programmable switching. Combined that with software assets Intel has to offer to build the most advanced network and security appliances and devices.
Developing Network and Security Edge and POPs
Build your own edge and POP to deploy your network and security services ever closer to your customers. Intel’s ecosystem offers you a choice of colocation services, server platforms from OEM system providers, and networking gears built on Intel technologies. Develop your software solutions by utilizing Intel software assets to get the best out of the hardware infrastructure.
Deliver your Network and Security as-a-service from the Cloud
Cloud is built on Intel technologies of various kind and sizes. Intel technologies are also broadly available in the cloud. Build your network and security services to run best on cloud infrastructure built on Intel. Develop your software solutions by utilizing Intel software assets to get the best out of the cloud infrastructure.
Intel® Products and Technologies
Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors
Last Updated: April 13, 2021
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors benefit from decades of innovation for the most common workload requirements, supported by close partnerships and deep integrations with the...
Intel® Xeon® D Processors
Last Updated: June 29, 2021
Intel® Xeon® D processors deliver workload optimized performance in space and power constrained environments, from the data center to the intelligent edge...
Intel® QuickAssist Technology
Last Updated: October 04, 2021
Accelerate encryption and compression to provide improved efficiency, scalability and performance – for data in motion or at rest, in-flight or in process...
Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer
Last Updated: April 13, 2021
Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB) is a hardware managed system of queues and arbiters connecting producers and consumers. It is a PCI device envisaged to live in the...
Intel® Ethernet Products
Last Updated: June 29, 2021
Intel provides data centers worldwide with innovative Ethernet components and solutions that are extensively tested for network interoperability, reliability, and performance...
Intel® Tofino™ Intelligent Fabric Processors
Last Updated: October 4, 2021
The Intel® Tofino™ 3 Intelligent Fabric Processor (IFP) is based on P4-programmability and accelerates packet processing with up to 25.6 Tbps bandwidth...
Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) SoC (Codename: Mount Evans)
Last Updated: June 29, 2021
Mount Evans Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) is a programmable networking device designed to enable cloud and communication service providers to reduce...
PMem Is a Revolutionary Memory Technology
Last Updated: October 4, 2021
PMem provides a unique combination of affordable larger capacity and support for data persistence. With innovative technology...
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Last Updated: October 4, 2021
There is tremendous opportunity for application and solution developers to take charge of their data security using new hardware-based controls for cloud and...
Intel® Resources and Technologies
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK*)
This open-source application is a set of libraries and drivers that accelerate packet processing and the ability to create packet forwarders without the need for costly custom switches and routers.
Introduction to Hyperscan
Hyperscan is a high performance regular expression matching library from Intel that runs on x86 platforms and offers support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) syntax, simultaneous matching of groups of regular expressions, and streaming operations. It is released as open source...
Intel® P4 Studio
Harness next-generation programmable network software development to accelerate networking innovation.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT): OpenSSL 1.1.x + Intel QAT Engine
This video provides in-depth instructions for bringing up the Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) Engine with OpenSSL 1.1.0...
Build a Fast Network Stack with Vector Packet Processing (VPP) on an Intel® Architecture Server
This tutorial shows how to install the FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP) package and build a packet forwarding engine on a bare metal Intel® Xeon® processor server. Two additional Intel Xeon processor platform systems are used to connect...
Nginx* HTTPs with Intel® QAT Tuning Guide on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
Developed by Igor Sysoev, a Russian software engineer, Nginx* is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy web server based on a BSD-like license. It also provides IMAP/POP3/SMTP services in the meantime. Since the release of the...
Intel® oneAPI Programming Guide Programming Guide
oneDNN supports systems based on Intel 64 architecture or compatible processors. A full list of supported CPU and graphics hardware is available from the Intel oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library System Requirements...
Intel® Optimization for TensorFlow* Installation Guide
TensorFlow* is a widely-used machine learning framework in the deep learning arena, demanding efficient utilization of computational resources. In order to take full advantage of Intel® architecture and to extract maximum performance, the...
Intel® Security Libraries for Data Center (Intel® SecL - DC)
Cloud computing has become an inevitable trend for consumers, enterprises, and other entities. Hybrid cloud adoption grew 3X in 2017.1 According to Gartner, by 2020, a corporate entity with a “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “No-Internet”...
Intel® Smart Edge Open Streamline networking and application
Intel® Smart Edge Open is a software toolkit for building edge platforms. Speed up development of edge solutions that host network functions alongside AI, media processing, and security workloads with reference solutions optimized for...
Technology Early Access, Remote Software Development Labs
Intel® DevCloud
Learn, prototype, test, and run your workloads for free on a cluster of the latest Intel® hardware and software.
Intel® Network Builders Virtual Lab
Virtual Lab offers access to a variety of resources featuring the latest Intel products and technologies, providing Intel Network Builders members an exclusive environment to tune, optimize, and verify their solutions.
Reference Architectures
Intel® Select Solutions
Intel® Select Solutions for SASE provide a pre-validated solution blueprint that accelerates time to production for robust cloud-first initiatives combining enterprise networking and security services.