CSIT 24.06 Report on 10th of July 2024

By lfnetworking | Jul 10 2024,

CSIT 24.06 Report on 10th of July 2024 – The CSIT report information can be found in csit.fd.io. Previous CSIT releases are also linked from there. The current CSIT report can be found here!


Forwarding over 100 Mpps with FD.io VPP on x86 -- Part 2

By Frederico Lezzi | Jul 7 2024,

In this medium.com post, Frederico Lezzi, Cloud Engineer @ Google, describes part 2 of how FD.io VPP + DPDK can be deployed on GCP to provide highly performant and cost efficient packet forwarding services.


VPP 24.06 Release on 26th of June 2024

By lfnetworking | Jun 26 2024,

VPP 24.06 Release on 26th of June 2024" – The VPP 24.06 Release includes 14 new features such as new device driver infra updates, upgrade DPDK plugin to use DPDK 24.03, RDMA driver to use version 51.0, and others. More than 284 commits were merged since the previous release, including 124 fixes. Complete list of features and bug fixes can be found in the Release notes here!


Intel and PANTHEON.tech demonstrate scaleability of VPP based StoneWork multi-service router

By Intel | Jun 7 2024,

Intel – This solution brief featuring PANTHEON.tech, an Intel® Network Builders Gold Tier ecosystem member, presents the benefits of utilizing the virtualized StoneWork MSR and validates the performance and scalability of StoneWork MSR control and data plane on the latest generation Intel® architecture processor-based servers, enabling provider edge network functions.


Forwarding over 100 Mpps with FD.io VPP on x86

By Frederico Lezzi | Jun 3 2024,

In this medium.com post, Frederico Lezzi, Cloud Engineer @ Google, describes how FD.io VPP + DPDK can be deployed on GCP to provide highly performant and cost efficient packet forwarding services.


Calico-VPP is GA in Calico v3.27.0 release on 19th of December 2023

By lfnetworking | Apr 3 2024,

Calico-VPP is GA in Calico v3.27.0 release on 19th of December 2023 – The Calico-VPP v3.27.0 release includes lots of new documentation, v6 rules in BGPFilters, vpp upgrade to latest and others. Complete list of features and bug fixes can be found in the Release notes on GitHub here!


CSIT 24.02 Report on 13th of March 2024

By lfnetworking | Mar 13 2024,

CSIT 24.02 Report on 13th of March 2024 – The CSIT report information can be found in csit.fd.io. Previous CSIT releases are also linked from there. The current CSIT report can be found here!


VPP 24.02 Release on 28th of February 2024

By lfnetworking | Feb 28 2024,

VPP 24.02 Release on 28th of February 2024" – The VPP 24.02 Release includes 21 new features such as new device driver infra, new native drivers (Amazon ENA, Marvel Octeon SOC, IAVF), add AES-CTR to native crypto plugin, upgrade DPDK plugin to use DPDK 23.11, RDMA driver to use version 49.0, and others. More than 262 commits were merged since the previous release, including 123 fixes. Complete list of features and bug fixes can be found in the Release notes here!


In Review: FD.io in 2023

By lfnetworking | Jan 18 2024,

In Review: FD.io in 2023 By Dave Wallace, FD.io TSC Chair “Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’…” The FD.io release train continued to steam down the track in 2023 with another year of exceptional performance, and on time delivery of VPP releases and CSIT Release reports. The FD.io TSC members were highly active in supporting the achievement of the community’s goals — maintaining balanced representation via TSC nominated membership, spearheading cost savings, and enabling the acquisition and deployment of the latest hardware into the FD.io performance and CI lab. While several inactive projects were archived in 2023 as part of cost savings initiatives, the FD.io core projects, VPP and CSIT, continued to excel in raising the bar in data plane performance and benchmarking. Both projects continued the unbroken string of on-time releases since 2021. VPP 23.02 Release introduced 19 new features and 118 fixes, VPP 23.06 Release added 26 new features and 145 fixes, and VPP 23.10 contributed 15 new …


CSIT 23.10 Report on 8th of November 2023

By lfnetworking | Nov 8 2023,

CSIT 23.10 Report on 8th of November 2023 – The CSIT report information can be found in csit.fd.io. Previous CSIT releases are also linked from there. The current CSIT report can be found here!


VPP 23.10 Release on 25th of October 2023

By lfnetworking | Oct 25 2023,

VPP 23.10 Release on 25th of October 2023 – The VPP 23.10 Release includes 15 new features such as upgrade DPDK plugin to use DPDK 23.07, RDMA driver to use version 46.1, support for chained buffers in Wireguard plugin, and others. More than 212 commits were merged since the previous release, including 106 fixes. Complete list of features and bug fixes can be found in the Release notes here!


CSIT 23.06 Report on 12th of July 2023

By lfnetworking | Jul 12 2023,

CSIT 23.06 Report on 12th of July 2023 – The format of FD.io CSIT reports has now changed. It is no longer available in the static html format. Instead current CSIT report information can be found in csit.fd.io. Previous CSIT releases are also linked from there. The current CSIT report can be found here!