Paul Stevens

Telecom Sector Marketing Director

Advantech NCG

paul.stevens@advantech.com

Workload Consolidation on ATCA

with Intel® Next Generation Communications

Platform codename Crystal Forest

4:1 Communications Workload Consolidation

Power Management Virtualization Standards Software Security

Packet Processing

Control Processing

Signal Processing

Application Processing

Intel® Xeon® Processor

C3500/C5500

Intel® Xeon® E5-2600

(“Romley”) and

“Crystal Forest” Next

Generation Platforms

Intel® QuickAssist Software Library

Intel® Data Plane Development Kit

Intel® Signal Processing

Development Kit

2011 2012 2013

NPU/ASIC

DSP DSP

One Instruction Set Architecture

One Tool Suite

Multiple Opportunities

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Family

More Cores

More Memory

More Integration

More Bandwidth

= New On E5-2600

Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology

Enhanced Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) PCI Express Gen3 (40 lanes PCIe/socket) Intel® Virtualization Technology Enhancements http://intel.ly/XeonE5

Intel DPDK

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Family Generational Performance Improvement

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Clovertown 4C

80W E5345

Harpertown 4C

80W E5440

Nehalem 4C 80W

E5540

Westmere 6C 80W

E5645

Sandybridge 8C

95W E5-2658

67% performance gain in specint_2006

over Intel® Xeon® 5600 series Specin

t_2006

Plus >15 Benchmark Performance World Records!

Next Generation Comms Platform Intel “Crystal Forest” Helping to Transform the Network

Intel® Data Plane Development Kit

• Packet Processing Acceleration

Intel® QuickAssist Technology

Data Processing IO

• SATA • USB

Comms IO

• 1, 10 and 40 Gb Ethernet

Up to 160 million pps

0-100 Gbps Crypto

1 to 16 cores (dual socket)

Go Faster More Secure Lower Costs

• Crypto • Compression • Deep Packet Inspection

Intel® DPDK Intel® QuickAssist

Intel® Dataplane Development Kit embeds

optimizations for Intel architecture

platforms:

• Data Plane Libraries and Optimized NIC Drivers

• Buffer Management, Queue Ring Functions, Flow

classification

• Run-time Environment

• Environment Abstraction Layer and Boot Code

• BSD licensed & source downloadable from Intel

http://www.intel.com/go/dpdk

Service Open Source Frameworks

Open Source

Applications

Cryptography • OpenSSL libcrypto • Linux Kernel Crypto API

(scatterlist)

• IPsec (NETKEY)

Data Compression

• zlib • Linux* Kernel Crypto

API (scatterlist)

• File compression (minigzip)

• IPComp (NETKEY)

Applications may integrate at

multiple levels:

– Program to Intel® QuickAssist

Technology API

– Program to Open Source

Framework through Patches/Shims

Breakthrough Data Plane Performance with Intel® DPDK

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The New Common Platform Powering Workload Consolidation

Fabric Mezzanine Modules - Flexibility Redefined

Personalize your Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 Blade

Pluggable FMMs connect blades with 20, 40, 80 or 160 Gbps to FI

Add I/O, Acceleration FMMs or Custom IP such as flow control etc

Key Benefits for Customers

Advantech’s MIC-5333 based Common Platforms developed

with Intel’s Crystal Forest and Fabric Mezzanine Module

techlogy shorten design times and accelerate the insertion of

new network efficient technologies

Fabric Mezzanine Modules bring flexibility for product

differentiation & scalability to future-proof next generation

networking platform designs

FMMs – Flexibility Redefined