AUGUST 2016

Meet Our Leadership in Attendance

Sandra L. Rivera
Vice President, Data Center Group
General Manager, Network Platforms Group

Jonathan H. Donaldson
Vice President, Data Center Group
General Manager, Software Defined Infrastructure Group

Jake Smith
Director
Data Center Solutions and Technologies
Intel Corporation

Das Kamhout
Senior Principal Engineer at Intel,
Datacenter Solutions Group

Intel® Builders Community at IDF-SF 2016

The Intel® Developer Forum has long become a destination for developers to gather, work together, and ignite the spark of innovation that is only made possible on Intel® technologies. It is also a place for the Intel® Builders ecosystem to showcase the bleeding-edge innovations driving the transformation of the data center.

The Intel Builders Community, among many other IDF Technology communities, showcases the latest ecosystem solutions and Intel® technologies that enable a more automated, agile data center infrastructure. This year, the community will be represented by partners from Intel® Cloud Builders, Intel® Network Builders, and Intel® Storage Builders and will showcase demos that help enterprises, cloud, and communications service providers build, operate, and innovate next-generation solutions for data centers, accelerating along the path to software defined infrastructure (SDI).

Registrations for IDF-SF are now open.

Technical Sessions at IDF-SF 2016

Intel will host a variety of technical content sessions during IDF-SF. Sessions of specific interest to Intel® Builders members include "Cryptography and Compression Acceleration for NFV, Cloud, and Hyper-Converged Solutions," "Strategies and Tools to Optimize Modern Workloads," and "State of the Stack: What to Expect of OpenStack,* Compute, Network, and Storage." Check the IDF-SF schedule of technical sessions for an up-to-date catalog.

• Network Function Virtualization

• Cloud IaaS with OpenStack*

• Software Defined Networking

• Deployment Use Cases

The DPDK program was also expanded with the addition of DPDK 16.04, providing an overview of new features in a recent DPDK release.

The Intel Network Builders University online course content is growing. There are now 35 courses covering a broad spectrum of topics of varying technical difficulty. You can access the content by creating a login here, or Intel Network Builders members can use their member login. We welcome your feedback and new topic ideas for future course development. Email us at university@networkbuilders.intel.com.

Healy also discussed how the increasing maturity in project planning and code realization within OPNFV is becoming a predictor of its future success, and Intel's commitment to OPNFV–including key contributions in 2016 like contributing engineering resources to performance, service assurance, and test projects–in a blog post on the Intel Network Builders website.

• Increased Multi-Architecture Support: The continued increase in multi-architecture support helps to position DPDK as the data plane API of choice for NFV deployments. Support for the following items was added in 16.07:
  • Broadcom* NetXtreme* C-Series 10/25/50Gbps NICs
  • QLogic* FastLinQ* QL4xxxx 25G/40G NICs
  • NXP's* second generation Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA2), enabling support for the QorIQ* LS series
• Virtio in Containers: Support for a high performance networking interface (virtio) for container-based DPDK applications. This is an innovative approach that can significantly improve performance in containers.
• Cryptodev Support for KASUMI Algorithm: Added support via the cryptodev API for the KASUMI algorithm, which is used in GSM, GPRS, and UMTS mobile communications systems. This continues the expansion of the cryptodev API to support wireless use cases.
• Packet Capture Framework: The addition of a packet capture framework that allows packets to be captured in PCAP files and viewed via standard tools such as tcpdump. This helps to improve the debuggability of DPDK-based applications.
• Live Migration for SR-IOV: Support has been added for Live Migration for SR-IOV. This uses Link Bonding, PCI Hotplug, and Vhost-User Live Migration, which were implemented in previous releases to support migration for SR-IOV, which improves DPDK support for NFV use cases that require maximum performance (via SR-IOV).
• Mempool Handler: The addition of a Mempool Handler, which allows DPDK to work with an external memory allocator. The main use case for this is to improve DPDK interworking with SoCs that include their own memory allocator, which further improves multi-architecture support.

The full feature list is available in the Release Notes. You can also watch an overview of the release features with the DPDK 16.07 New Features webinar.

Don't miss these webinars from our ecosystem:

"Telco Cloud: Driving Service Transformation in the Telecommunications Industry," with Ben McCahill, Intel – Watch Now

"End-to-End Architecture for NFV Cloud Communications," with Douglas Tait, Director Communications Solutions Marketing, Oracle,* on August 16 – Register Now

"From B to C - What's Happening in OPNFV," with Frank Schapfel, Intel SDN and NFV Telecom Marketing Manager, and Tapio Tallgren, Nokia,* on August 23 – Register Now

• Follow @IntelNetwork on Twitter* or use the Intel Network Builders hashtag, #IntelBuilders.
• Connect directly with ecosystem members through NetworkIn, the Intel Network Builders online collaboration tool, available through the member portal of the Intel Network Builders website.