Enhance Agility with Cloud-Native NFV
Advances in Cloud technologies, new service offerings, and the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth are transforming communication service providers (CSPs). To keep pace, packet processing must be offloaded to hardware using DPDK, and the NVIDIA Mellanox ASAP2 (accelerated switching and packet processing) technology.
ASAP2 provides a time-bound packet flow engine that enables software-defined, hardware-accelerated infrastructure to provide optimized performance for virtual network functions (VNF) and containerized network functions (CNF). With ASAP2, I/O processing is offloaded to the NIC, freeing up server CPU. The server can dedicate its resources to application processing, resulting in higher system efficiency.

Intelligent Edge AI Computing
Automated vehicles, AR/VR, cloud gaming, Industry 4.0. These and many other emerging use cases have in common a need for Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI): the nexus of IoT, 5G, and AI running on multi-access edge computing (MEC) equipment.
Edge AI on MEC allows processing to be moved away from centralized data centers, so processing occurs closer to the user for optimal latency. NVIDIA offers a complete portfolio of ConnectX® SmartNICs and BlueField™ DPUs to offload networking and security functions and accelerate MEC packet processing using ASAP2 to implement AI decision making closer to the edge.
Bringing 5G Services to Life
With 5G, CSPs are adopting cloud technologies to build open, cost-effective, scalable and programmable networks. The NVIDIA 5T for 5G technology provides an ideal reference architecture for software-defined, hardware-accelerated 5G CloudRAN (Cloud radio access networks). 5T for 5G offers latency-sensitive scheduling with precise time accuracy of just 16ns to help solve the complex scheduling problems of 5G. This approach adds flexibility and efficiencies allowing CSPs to transform their business model and provide scalable data services to tenants and sub-tenants that offer elasticity and demand-based cost structures.

Transforming Next-Generation Wireless with 5T for 5G and the NVIDIA Aerial SDK
Cloud & Telco Software Ecosystem
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Together we enable a faster, more efficient data center.
Resources
- Red Hat and Mellanox Deliver Agile NFV Cloud with Unprecedented Performance
- Cloud-Native NFV Acceleration at Scale
- A10 Virtual Appliance with Mellanox Achieves 100Gbps Throughput
- Accelerate Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) with Mellanox VXLAN Offload
- Accelerate Nuage VSP with Mellanox Offloads: VXLAN, ASAP2 and OVS DPDK
- F5 and Mellanox Enable High Performance VNFs for Virtualized and 5G Networks
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables agile service delivery and seamless scalability
- Teleco 5G for 5T
- Mellanox and Red Hat Deliver Unprecedented Performance, Efficiency and Simplicity for NFV Infrastructure and Agile Cloud Data Centers
- Accelerating Bare Metal Kubernetes Workloads, the Right Way
- HPE and Mellanox Offer Cloud-Ready OpenNFV Solutions with Record DPDK Performance
- OVS over ASAP²… OMG! AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors and Mellanox SmartNICs Deliver Epic 5G Performance
- Smarter Edge Computing Needs a Smarter Network
- The Ideal Network for Containers and NFV Microservices
- Three Ways ASAP2 Beats DPDK for Cloud and NFV
- Transforming Next-Generation Wireless with 5T for 5G and the NVIDIA Aerial SDK
- What Is a DPU (Data Processing Unit) based SmartNIC