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Ethernity and TietoEVRY to Boost 5G Performance
Ethernity and TietoEVRY to Boost 5G Performance.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 8982C Ethernity Networks Ltd 13 February 2020 \n\nRNS Reach\n13 February 2020\nETHERNITY NETWORKS LIMITED\n(\"Ethernity\" or the \"Company\")\nEthernity Networks and TietoEVRY to Boost 5G Performance with UPF/VPP Acceleration\n5G User Plane Function is implemented as a plug-in to open source VPP software, offering offloaded (to FPGA-based SmartNIC) and accelerated 5G packet processing with low TCO and high throughput\nEthernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L), a leading supplier of data processing offload solutions on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) for virtualised networking appliances, and TietoEVRY (HEL: TIETO), a leading digital services and software company, announced today that they are jointly offering an open source concept based on VPP for 5G User Plane Functionality (UPF) to accelerate 5G packet processing at the network edge, where high bandwidth and low latency are of key importance.\nTietoEVRY and Ethernity will now jointly promote these accelerated UPF technologies to OEMs and system integrators as well as through the companies' technology partners and customers.\nTietoEVRY has developed UPF software components for packet processing and control that makes use of the Virtual Packet Processing (VPP) open source project to enable high flexibility in 5G networking. By offloading the data plane to Ethernity's FPGA-based ACE-NIC100 SmartNIC, the integrated offering provides extremely high bandwidth and low latency while saving CPU cores. The integration uses industry-standard Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) APIs to offload VPP/UPF to the ACE-NIC100.\nThe concept and joint offering follows the trend of network disaggregation, in which service providers are seeking to complement and enhance their 5G networks by deploying Open UPF, in combination with edge connectivity. With the ACE-NIC100's small footprint and low power dissipation, the integrated reference software from Ethernity and TietoEVRY is optimized for edge deployment, being fully containerized and using the VPP data plane. This allows service providers to boost performance, reduce networking overhead, and lower Total Cost of Ownership, as well as co-locate the UPF with other services.\nOpen source software and FPGAs also support network disaggregation for 5G by ensuring that customers will not be tied to any single software or har...