MAY 2016

To see all our ecosystem members, visit the Ecosystem Partners page and the End User Members page on our website.

Open source organizations foster industry-wide collaboration and innovation on technologies that propel the industry forward. Intel is a leading contributor to a number of open source projects within the NFV and SDN area. Intel's sponsorship of these open source projects includes platinum membership in FD.io, OpenDaylight, OpenStack, and OPNFV as well as membership in open source projects such as DPDK and Open vSwitch.*

Intel Network Builders, with its active ecosystem, is the perfect place for partners and end user members to gain access to a wide range of supporting documentation for the open source work that Intel engineers are involved in. Here you will find each open source project with its own specific area of focus, and learn more about Intel's individual contributions to each one.

This information will help you understand how to make use of Intel's contributions and how this translates into more efficient and optimized use of your infrastructure leading to an enhanced and improved end customer experience.

To find out more, visit the new Open Source page.

The day will include a variety of sessions and panel discussions, including the following:

• A CSP keynote
• Intel Network Builders partners discussing their work leading the way in developing carrier-grade solutions
• Sessions on the NFV supply chain as well as VNF level and network testing
• Presentations by Intel technology experts providing insight on Intel's perspective on the telco cloud and how Intel® Open Network Platform is showing the way for developing carrier-grade open source solutions.

Space is limited at this exclusive event. Register today by visiting our event page.

You can access the training by visiting the Intel® Network Builders University page and creating a free login. If you are already a member, just sign in using your Intel® Network Builders account credentials.

The new release of Intel® Open Network Platform reference architecture introduces added functionality, enhanced performance, and greater stability and includes support for Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4, Platform QoS, and OPNFV* KVM4NFV project.

Increasing market pressures, such as the demand for new and enhanced services, and the search for more cost-effective solutions are driving communications service providers (CSPs) to adopt network functions virtualization (NFV). Click here to read more.

The major features in the release include:

• Cryptodev Enhancements: Support for hardware and software implementations of the SNOW 3G algorithm, addition of an AES-NI GCM PMD to support AES-128 GCM operations, addition of a NULL crypto PMD to facilitate testing, discovery mechanism to determine capabilities of crypto PMDs.
• IPsec Sample Application: A sample application has been added that shows how DPDK and the new cryptodev API can be used to implement an IPsec Security Gateway.
• Live Migration for Vhost-User: Supports live migration of VMs using vhost-user.
• Virtio/Vhost Enhancements: Virtio 1.0 support, vhost software TSO, vhost/virtio performance tuning.
• Container Enhancement: Enable short-lived DPDK applications.
• Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 Family (I40E) Enhancements: Flow Director filtering based on TOS, Protocol and TTL, Ethertype configuration for QinQ support, VEB switching, IPGRE support, set VF MAC address, enable PCIe extended tag using DPDK interfaces, notify VF of PF reset, VMDQ DCB mode.
• Packet Framework (Edge Router Use Case): Support for load balancing within a pipeline, CPU utilization measurements within a pipeline, improvements for the functional pipelines, tables and ports, performance tuning.
• Intel® Ethernet Multi-host Controller FM10000 Family (FM10K) Enhancements: FTAG-based forwarding, interrupt mode, performance tuning.
• Intel® Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) Sample Application: A sample application has been created that shows how Intel Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) can be used with DPDK.
• Increase Next Hops for LPM (IPv4): The number of next hops for IPv4 LPM was previously limited to 256. This will be extended to 24 bits to allow a greater number of next hops.
• Userspace Ethtool Enhancements

For a full list of the features, please read the release notes. A webinar describing the new features in the release aired in April and can be viewed on the Intel Network Builders BrightTalk channel.

The Intel roadmap for the 16.07 release, which is targeted for release in July, was also recently published.

Podcast: "Virtualizing Content Delivery Networks," with Anand Parikh, Senior Director of Business Development at Akamai Technologies - Listen On Demand

Podcast: "Adding Value to Virtual CPE," with Alexander "Sandy" McKinney, Director of Platform Software at Benu Networks* - Listen On Demand

Webinar: "Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN: Following Moore's Law," with Michael Wood, VP of Marketing at VeloCloud Networks,* and Sab Gosal, Segment Manager for Network Security & Appliances, Intel - Watch On Demand

Webinar: "Making Enterprise Networks as Easy and Cost-Effective as Wi-Fi," with Rajesh Mishra, Founder, President, and CTO at Parallel Wireless* - Watch On Demand

Webinar: "Secure Fog Computing and Networks," with Christian Gotare, Expert IP & Security Network, Clavister - Watch On Demand

Blog: "Telco Mission Critical: Enabling Advanced Media Processing in the NFV Cloud," by Sanjay Bhatia, Vice President of Solutions Marketing and Strategy at GENBAND* - Read Now

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• 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.