Barefoot Networks and Xilinx to Showcase Unprecedented Programmability and Visibility for 5G Networks
February 22 2018 - 11:00AM
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS - Barefoot Networks,
the creator of Tofino, the world’s fastest P4-programmable 6.5Tb/s
Ethernet switch ASIC, and Deep Insight, the world’s first network
monitoring system that lets you see what every packet is doing in
your network, and Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the market leader
of programmable semiconductor solutions, will demonstrate an
end-to-end network performance monitoring solution that gives
network operators per-packet visibility at nanosecond granularity.
As the race to 5G deployments picks up the pace, having a
network infrastructure that enables delivery of next-gen services
and applications at high-performance and full visibility is
critical to business success. 5G enables a rich set of applications
in multiple markets including automotive, communications, defense,
healthcare, industrial production and media. These new services are
enabled by features including lower latency, higher bandwidth,
increased capacity for end-devices and the ability to slice the
network for different applications. Monitoring the performance of
the network for parameters such as latency, bandwidth and quality
of service (QoS) will be crucial for provisioning and maintaining
services to customers.
“P4-programmability is enabling new paradigms like
‘Computational Networking’ where the network acts as an accelerator
for compute. Barefoot Tofino ASIC-based P4 switches with INT,
combined with Xilinx® FPGA-based P4 SmartNICs with INT, give 5G
network operators the per-packet visibility and the ability to
define innovative features in the network to augment compute
resources and accelerate VNF performance,” said Ed Doe, VP
of Product, Business and Strategy at Barefoot Networks.
“Barefoot Deep Insight enables them to visualize, analyze, detect,
root cause and mitigate any failures or issues that cause
degradation in performance in real-time, helping maintain customer
SLAs in the transition to NFV based infrastructure.”
“Xilinx is excited to partner with Barefoot Networks to
demonstrate the power of P4-programmability when applied not only
to switches in the network, but also to SmartNICs in the servers.
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) within 5G networks requires
processing of 100G/200G packets at line-rate to provide services
like vOLT and vBNG. To achieve these features, devices need to be
capable of L2/L3 processing, stream classification, stream
buffering, OvS, TCP/IP, and VXLAN/NVGRE offload at the 100/200G
packet rates,” said Farhad Shafai, Vice President,
Communications Markets at Xilinx. “The ability to
implement these capabilities on a Xilinx FPGA-based,
P4-programmable SmartNIC enhances the performance of the network
while having the visibility provided by Barefoot Deep Insight
analytics, which network operators can use to pinpoint problems to
the exact hop in the entire path a packet takes in the
network.”
Barefoot Tofino is the world's first end-user programmable
series of Ethernet switch ASICs. The switch leverages P4 to let
customers define forwarding plane functionality in minutes,
providing both programmability and performance for a wide array of
use cases. Generally available since 2017, Tofino is used by
customers in a variety of market segments, including hyperscale
data centers, enterprise, and service provider to leverage
programmability to meet rapidly growing network functionality and
performance requirements.
Barefoot Deep Insight is the world’s first network monitoring
system to provide full visibility into every packet in a network.
Deep Insight detects almost any anomaly in the network, including
microbursts, congestion problems and load balancing issues. This
allows customers to uncover the four ground truths for every packet
in their network: 1) How did it get here? 2) Why is it here? 3) How
long was it delayed? and 4) Why was it delayed? Deep Insight is
available now to key customers and partners.
Available with Xilinx’s latest UltraScale+™16nm FPGA device,
SmartNICs can be programmed using the industry’s first P4 compiler
for FPGAs and also support features like partial reconfiguration,
which allows users to program custom acceleration IPs and packet
processing functionality; Multi-rate network (10/25/40/50/100G)
interfaces with up to 100Gbps host interface using PCIe Gen3x16;
and software drivers for configuration and interface to host
applications.
The joint demonstration showcasing end-to-end visibility in a
Virtual Network Function Service Chain will take place on Feb. 26 –
March 1 at Mobile World Congress at the Xilinx Meeting Room in Hall
5, booth 5L14MR.
About Barefoot NetworksBarefoot Networks
launched in 2016 after two years of developing technology that
built switch silicon with a forwarding plane that is defined in
software while not compromising on performance. Barefoot empowers
network owners and their infrastructure partners to design,
optimize, and innovate to meet their specific requirements and gain
competitive advantage. In combining the P4 programming language
with fast programmable switches, Barefoot has also created an
ecosystem for compilers, tools, and P4 programs to make P4
accessible to anybody. Barefoot Networks is headquartered in
Silicon Valley and is backed by Google Inc., Goldman Sachs
Principal Strategic Investments, Alibaba, Tencent, and by premier
venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners,
and Andreessen Horowitz. For more information,
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About Xilinx Xilinx is a leading provider of
All Programmable semiconductor products, including FPGAs, SoCs,
MPSoCs, RFSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications
that are both software defined and hardware optimized – powering
industry advancements in Cloud Computing, 5G Wireless, Embedded
Vision, and Industrial IoT. For more information,
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Barefoot:Caitlin Haskins barefoot@10fold.com +1
415-800-5369
Xilinx: Christelle
Moraga christelle.moraga@xilinx.com +44 1932 57 4626
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