Category: Acceleration

• Corning Announces 5G In-Building Network Collaboration with Intel using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® FlexRAN Reference Architecture, and Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 Yesterday, Corning announced a collaborative effort with Intel to accelerate the availability of 5G communications within buildings. The collaboration will ultimately deliver a virtual platform for Corning’s 5G network solutions powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, based on the Intel® FlexRAN Reference Software Architecture, and incorporating the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) N3000 and 10/25/40Gb Intel® Ethernet 700 Series...
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• Free Webinar: Accelerate Cassandra NoSQL Database Performance using Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards rENIAC’s Distributed Data Engine accelerates Apache Cassandra NoSQL database performance by as much as an order of magnitude. It improves both throughput and latency for database transactions. Facebook originally developed the Apache Cassandra distributed NoSQL database to power its inbox search feature and released it to the open-source community more than a decade ago, where it has continued to flourish....
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• New White Paper describes high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks Proof of Concept with FPGA-based NFV acceleration Intel, Affirmed Networks, and Dell EMC describe a proof of concept for high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks (NGCN) in a new White Paper titled “Enabling Communications Service Providers to Meet 5G High Density I/O Goals through Software Optimization and Hardware Acceleration.” This White Paper describes a state-of-the-art solution for a commercial, standalone 5G core network (5GCN) that delivers 100 Gbps/CPU socket...
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• Handle one million IPSec SAs at 100 Gbps using Arrive Technologies’ IPSec core and the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 card Arrive Technologies’ FPGA-accelerated IP security (IPSec) IP core, optimized for the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) N3000, delivers wire-speed cryptographic processing (including AES-GCM (128/192/256), AES-CBC (128/192/256), SHA-1/2, and others) at Ethernet rates as fast as 100 Gbps while handling as many as one million Security Associations (SAs). With this sort of performance, Arrive’s IPSec solution based on the Intel...
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• Network service providers and operators can serve many more customers with better throughput, lower TCO using Benu Networks’ vBNG with FPGA-based VNF acceleration Network service providers and network operators perpetually face the challenge of reducing the costs associated with service delivery while also finding cost-effective ways to expand into new markets and serve an ever-growing number of subscribers while tailoring these services on a per-subscriber basis. Meeting these challenges requires a different approach and Benu Networks’ different approach relies heavily upon virtual network...
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• Free Intel and Napatech Webinar: Can Your Network Respond Quickly Enough to Defend Against Cyber Attacks? Corporate data breaches cost many millions of dollars and they’re becoming more frequent as faster line rates make it easier for cybercriminals and other malicious actors to penetrate corporate and government networks with the intent of causing harm. Consequently, commercial firms, governments, and other entities are beefing up their network security. Network security hardware and software has developed on two...
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• Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGAs Accelerate Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors in Servers and High-End Embedded Systems Hardware acceleration for servers is becoming increasingly common because these accelerators can perform calculations faster and more efficiently than the same computations running in software. The recently announced, high-performance Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA family has been designed specifically to provide FPGA-based hardware acceleration and memory expansion for next-generation server systems including servers based on selected Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors...
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• Silicom plans to use Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs to build smartNICs for datacenters and 5G applications Silicom has big plans for the initial shipments of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs that it is receiving through the Intel early access program. The company plans to develop a high-end smartNIC (smart network interface card) using the FPGAs to complement its existing smartNIC Server Adapters based on Intel Arria® 10 FPGAs and Intel Stratix® 10 FPGAs. Combining these smartNICs based on...
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• Do you need help with challenging video designs? Attending IBC 2019 in Amsterdam? Check out the Omnitek booth Few designs are as challenging as those for video applications. If you’re facing such a design and need to out-source, check out the Omnitek booth (Hall 10 Stand A24) at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam (September 13 – 17) where you will find representatives from Omnitek SSE, an Intel FPGA IP and design services group based in Basingstoke, UK with years...
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• Colorado Engineering Inc plans lower-cost PCIe development platform based on Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs Platinum Intel Design Solutions Network member Colorado Engineering Inc (CEI) is one of the companies that’s receiving early samples of the new Intel® Agilex™ FPGA, per last week’s announcement. CEI’s headquarters overlooks Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. The company has created more than fifty FPGA-based designs for a variety of clients and has been working with Intel...
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