Easing the Path to Network Transformation
Network transformation takes many forms: open platforms, virtualized infrastructure, containers and cloud native practices—and often a mix of any of these. Regardless of choice, the path to transformation typically requires new tools and new skills. The Intel Network Builders program is designed to help ease that journey holistically. Network Transformation Experience Kits provide a library of best-practice architecture and development guidelines addressing Industry needs in automation, interfaces standardization, security, resources management and more. These Experience Kits offer developers, technical leads, and other audiences a variety of materials needed to enable adoption of the new technologies and service-enabling capabilities needed for next-generation, open, agile and efficient networks.
Reference Architectures
Network Transformation reference architectures provide guidance to optimized...
Intel Technology Enablement
This section provides comprehensive descriptions, tools and support materials of the service...
Acceleration
Open platforms provide the scalability and flexibility needed for almost any network usage.
Automation
A critical objective of many network transformation projects is enable automation to offset the time-consuming...
Security
Security of any networking system is always a top priority. No network transformation journey is possible without considering...
Resource Management
The objective of automated, scalable, highly performant solutions requires efficient allocation and management of the resources...
Training and Demos Link
Watch the following training and demo videos to understand the newly developed networking capabilities...
Reference Architectures
Network Transformation reference architectures provide guidance to optimized configurations of hardware and software components designed to achieve efficiencies in modern network architectures. The primary focus for reference architecture development is on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) use cases. In order to keep up with and derive benefits from the latest advances, most reference architectures are based on 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable platforms and related technologies.
- Container Bare Metal for 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Reference Architecture NEW!
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Overview - Part 1 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Technology - Part 2 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Installation - Part 3 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Verification - Part 4 Training Video
- Multi-Cloud Services on Kubernetes* with Cloudify* Orchestration and F5 Networks* Functions
- NFV Demonstration Framework - Application Guide
- Packet pROcessing eXecution Engine (PROX) - Performance Characterization for NFVI User Guide
- QCT Validated Kubernetes Platform with Enhanced Platform Awareness Technical Brief
- QCT Validated Red Hat OpenShift Platform with Enhanced Platform Awareness and Optimized Base Frequency Technical Brief
- Telecom Workload Placement and Affinity Model Solution Brief
Intel Technology Enablement
This section provides comprehensive descriptions, tools and support materials of the service enabling capabilities of key Intel products including 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® QuickAssist Technology, Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory and more.
- Intel® Ethernet Controller 700 Series - Open vSwitch* Hardware Acceleration Application Note
- Intel® Ethernet Controller 700 Series GTPv1 - Dynamic Device Personalization Application Note
- Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory - Content Delivery Networks Use Case User Guide
- Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory - Telecom Use Case Workloads Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency - Enhancing Performance Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology – Base Frequency (Intel® SST-BF) with Kubernetes* Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency Configuration Automation on OpenStack* Compute Host Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency Priority CPU Management for Open vSwitch* (OVS*) Application Note
- Telco/Cloud Enablement for 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform - Intel® QuickAssist Technology Application Note
- Telco/Cloud Enablement for 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform - Intel® Resource Director Technology Application Note
Acceleration
Open platforms provide the scalability and flexibility needed for almost any network usage. In some cases, this includes using standards-based acceleration technologies to deliver the required efficiency or performance. Intel offers a large range of technologies and capabilities to meet the broad range of throughput and reliability of network workloads.
- 5G User Plane Function (UPF) - Performance with ASTRI Solution Brief
- AF_XDP – In Kernel Fast Path Overview Training Video
- Intel® Ethernet Controller 700 Series - Dynamic Device Personalization Support for CNF with Kubernetes* Technology Guide
- Intel® Ethernet Controller 700 Series - Open vSwitch* Hardware Acceleration Application Note
- Intel® Ethernet Controller 700 Series GTPv1 – Dynamic Device Personalization
- Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory - Telecom Use Case Workloads Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency - Enhancing Performance Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency Priority CPU Management for Open vSwitch* (OVS*) Application Note
- Telco/Cloud Enablement for 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform - Intel® QuickAssist Technology Application Note
Automation
A critical objective of many network transformation projects is enable automation to offset the time-consuming and costly manpower requirements to manage scalable, distributed networks and to achieve more cloud-like efficiencies. While the separation of functions found in most virtualized, NFV or cloud-native environments could initially multiply the complexity of managing services, they also promise unprecedented ability to streamline and automate management and maintenance functions through the use of telemetry, closed loop processes and increasingly AI techniques.
- Closed Loop Automation - Telemetry Aware Scheduler for Service Healing and Platform Resilience Demo
- Closed Loop Automation - Telemetry Aware Scheduler for Service Healing and Platform Resilience White Paper
- Closed Loop Platform Automation - Power Savings Demo
- Closed Loop Platform Automation - System QoS Demo
- Closed Loop Platform Automation – Workload Resiliency Demo
- Closed Loop Platform Automation – Workload Resiliency User Guide
- Enhanced Service Assurance - Intel Platform with OPNFV Barometer project Demo
- Enhanced Service Assurance - Intel Platform with OPNFV Barometer project User Guide
- Enhanced Utilization Telemetry for Polling Workloads with collectd and the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) User Guide
- Intel Platform Service Assurance – Integration with VNF Event Stream Feature Brief
- Intel Platform Service Assurance – Retrieving Redfish* Platform Telemetry Feature Brief
- Intel Platform Service Assurance – Telemetry ingestion into OpenStack* Feature Brief
- Intel Platform Service Assurance – Telemetry ingestion into Platform for Network Data Analytics Feature Brief
- Multi-Cloud Services on Kubernetes* with Cloudify* Orchestration and F5 Networks* Functions
- Telemetry Aware Scheduling - Automated Workload Optimization with Kubernetes* (K8s*) Technology Guide
Security
Security of any networking system is always a top priority. No network transformation journey is possible without considering and planning for the security implications. New technologies allow new hardware and virtualized or containerized security services to provide the latest protections throughout the network infrastructure.
Resource Management
The objective of automated, scalable, highly performant solutions requires efficient allocation and management of the resources across the network. Network resource management is the process of managing and allocating resources for networking processes in an efficient way serving multiple, often dynamic workload needs.
Training and Demos Link
Watch the following training and demo videos to understand the newly developed networking capabilities and how you can apply them to your networking environments.
- AF_XDP – In Kernel Fast Path Overview Training Video
- Closed Loop Automation - Telemetry Aware Scheduler for Service Healing and Platform Resilience Demo
- Closed Loop Platform Automation - Power Savings Demo
- Closed Loop Platform Automation - System QoS Demo
- Closed Loop Platform Automation – Workload Resiliency Demo
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Overview - Part 1 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Technology - Part 2 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Installation - Part 3 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Verification - Part 4 Training Video
- Enhanced Service Assurance - Intel Platform with OPNFV Barometer project Demo
- Intel® Ethernet - Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) - Overview Training Video
- Intel® Speed Select Technology – Base Frequency - Overview Training Video
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