SEPTEMBER 2015

This initiative maintains Intel's commitment to support the delivery of proven, optimized, and interoperable network solutions. Since limited solution delivery, an unclear path to deployment, and lack of interoperable solutions are still challenges faced by communications service providers on the path of transforming their network, the Intel Network Builders Fast Track will aim to ignite solutions delivery with collaborative tools, integrate proven solutions through blueprint publications and technical training, and optimize interoperability and performance through third-party testing.

To learn more about the Intel Network Builders Fast Track, please visit the initiative page and watch Sandra's webinar on the main benefits that this initiative will bring to our ecosystem.

Our end user community is further enriching our ecosystem. We have expanded our base to seven end users with participation from communications service providers and enterprise. Our first enterprise to join is none other than Nasdaq. We look forward to future collaborations with our end users to help with rapid NFV deployments.

To view our end users, please visit our End User Members Page.

Our goal is to ease our members through each stage of the adoption cycle for accelerating SDN/NFV deployments. As part of the adoption cycle, we help our members:

1. Plan - by providing a simplified, custom mapping of the ecosystem whereby our end users plan their NFV roadmap and partners exhibit their solutions based on their areas of expertise. The My Portfolio tab in the Member Portal features an extensive search engine to explore, edit, and save categorized results.
2. Connect - by fostering collaboration and matchmaking between our end users and partners based on their plan. This is enabled through our member directory and our collaboration tool, NetworkIn.
3. Deploy - by fueling faster innovation for end users and partners to accelerate deployments. The My Portfolio tab facilitates confidential collateral sharing with partners of choice, initiating private groups, and much more.

To use our Member Portal and the newly launched My Portfolio features, simply log on here. If you are not a user, join now to get your customized portal view.

Designed as a co-marketing tool, these banners can be used on partners' websites, as display ads, on printed marketing materials, and across social vehicles. Graphic files are saved in a variety of shapes and resolutions to better meet your co-marketing goals.

Please download the banners and signal to the industry your partnership with Intel today!

• Member Personalized Experience: We have upgraded the Member Area to include the ability to search the Products Catalog and save the search results. Additionally, ecosystem members can add and edit their products on this page.
• New Website Structure: Content on the website has been organized to allow ease of use and give a better user experience. Check out the Resources section, with our Products Catalog and Library, and The Hub, which brings together blog posts from thought leaders, webinars from our ecosystem partners, podcasts, and more.
• Advanced Site Search: A new site search tool has been added to allow users to find documents, blogs, videos, and catalog items easily and based on their categories.
• Partner Microsites: An expanding ecosystem means more partner microsites have been added to the website. Be sure to check them out!

Intel® Network Edge Virtualization Software Development Kit (Intel NEV SDK) is designed to assist application developers in taking advantage of the opportunity enabled by MEC. The NEV SDK provides a full tool suite, a virtualized environment, and a comprehensive suite of reference libraries and APIs, which means the application developer does not need to be aware of the complexity and implementation attributes of the underlying mobile network protocols. The NEV SDK runs on the Intel® Xeon® general purpose multi-core processor. Applications developed using the NEV SDK can run on both the Intel® Xeon® and Atom® family of processors. This permits a scalable solution for different cellular network deployment scenarios, including small cells, aggregation sites, macro cells, and Cloud RAN (C-RAN).

In conjunction with the NEV SDK, application developers can use the LTE EPC and LTE eNB Emulators from Polaris Networks. These emulators are installed on PCs and provide an end-to-end simulation of the S1 interface. This allows application developers to validate their software works in a variety of network topologies without the need to invest in wireless network equipment.

Get more details on Intel NEV SDK here.

Available today, Intel® ONP Server release 1.4 features enhancements that support the OpenStack Kilo release and introduces stability and technology enhancements contributing to Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA). These enhancements provide improved performance and precise balancing of workload demands to available platform capabilities when creating virtual machines. Other advances in this release leverage the interoperability features of open-source ingredients for easier integration into enterprise infrastructures, improve stability to better meet customer requirements, and optimize platform performance.

Stay tuned for Release 1.5, planned to be available on September 13, as ONP continues to add incremental innovation supporting SDN and NFV deployability, manageability, and stability.

Additional information on Intel ONP can be found on 01.org and the Intel Network Builders site.

• Cuckoo Hash + Updated Jhash
• IEEE1588 Support
• PCI Hot Plug – PMD Support
• Red Rock Canyon (FM10K) Features: fm10k promiscuous, mac vlan filtering, Tx checksum offload
• Packet Framework Enhancements: New configuration file syntax; New implementation of pass-through pipeline, firewall pipeline, routing pipeline, and flow classification; Master pipeline with CLI interface
• I40e Enhancements: Mirroring Rule, Double VLAN Strip/Insert, Unified Packet Type, Flow Director (L2_payload Type and VF Filtering)
• VXLAN Offload Sample Application
• Extended NIC statistics
• Dynamic Memzone
• Interrupt Mode
• KNI multicast
• KNI optimization
• Check MBUF private area alignment
• Indirect MBUF cloning

The new 2.1 release can be downloaded here, and the full list of release features can be viewed in the release notes.

Planning is now underway for DPDK 2.2, which is due for release later this year.

Additional details can also be found on Intel's website.