In the rapidly evolving landscape of silicon and networking technologies, providing robust and standardized support for hardware has become a paramount aspect of success. Marvell, a leading provider of silicon solutions, embarked on a transformative journey to ensure seamless support for their Octeon system-on-chip (SoC) through the adoption of DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). This…
Introduction In the fast-paced world of telecommunications, companies are constantly seeking solutions to address evolving challenges and meet the demands of their customers. Ericsson, a global leader in the industry, has been at the forefront of incorporating new technologies into its product portfolio. One such technology is the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), which has…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
