THE LINUX FOUNDATION PROJECTS

Data Centers

Enterprise, Cloud, Edge and Data Centers

Network Edge

Routers, switches, and firewalls

Infrastructure

Transportation networks, telecom networks, Financial trading platforms and industrial control systems

Experimental

Particle accelerators, Satellites and more 

  • Load balancing

  • Routing & Switching

  • SDN / Virtual Switch

  • VNFs and CNFs

  • Software acceleration for other projects (FD.io, SPDK)

  • Test equipment

  • Telco: 5G Ran

Security

  • DDOS protection

  • DLP

  • DPI

  • IPSec

  • Network Firewall

  • Web Application Firewall

DPDK in Action

A few examples

Enhancing DDos Mitigation with Gatekeeper & DPDK: A Practical Solution for Network Operators

Author: Michel Machado - michel@digirati.com.br Overview  Originally developed at Boston University, Gatekeeper is the brainchild of researchers who looked at the state of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and realized that the community lacked an affordable, performant, and deployable solution to defending against such attacks. On one hand, cloud companies offer DDoS protection as a service,…

SmartShare Systems Leverages DPDK to Significantly Increase WAN Optimization

Download pdf The Company / Product SmartShare Systems is a small privately held company founded in 2006 by Morten Brørup in Denmark. SmartShare Systems develops innovative network appliances and related services with R&D in Denmark and hardware manufacturing in Taiwan. Their solutions have quickly become popular and are currently used by schools, commercial businesses, apartment…

DPDK 22.11 Release is Now Available!

A new major release, DPDK 22.11,  is now available: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-22.11.tar.xz It was a comfortable release cycle, with:         1387 commits from 193 authors         1902 files changed, 137224 insertions(+), 61256 deletions(-) The branch 22.11 should be supported for at least two years, maybe more, making it recommended for system integration and deployment. The new major ABI version…

DPDK Governing Board Meeting Summary – August 23, 2022

Brief Summary of Governing Board Minutes from 8/23/22 We did have a quorum present for this meeting, with 8 governing board representatives present. Introduction: As chair, Jim St. Leger called the meeting to order and welcomed Daniel Havey of Microsoft as Doug Stamper's interim replacement.  Changes in Representation: Jim St. Leger announced that he will be departing DPDK as…

DPDK 22.07 Release is Now Available

The latest DPDK release, 22.07, is now available: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-22.07.tar.xz As is atypical, this Summer release is quite small: 1021 commits from 177 authors  1149 files changed, 77256 insertions(+), 26288 deletions(-) There are no plans to start a maintenance branch for 22.07. This version is ABI-compatible with 21.11 and 22.03. New features include:   initial RISC-V…

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