DAWN Internet - A New Dawn for the Internet – Imagine a shift from a centralized to a decentralized Internet infrastructure—transforming who controls both connectivity and cloud infrastructure. What if this shift was not only feasible but also immediately profitable? Each incremental change could save money and generate profit since it doesn’t require enormous infrastructure investments. This article aims to make that case, centering on a pivotal development: multi-gigabit wireless technology. Wireless radios allow us to beam Internet through the air, at a fraction of the cost of alternatives like fiber. And for the first time in history (2024), wireless matches fiber in terms of performance at the last-mile and exceeds it in scalability, positioning it as a viable foundation for a new Internet. The question now is not about the technical feasibility, but the how—the systems, business models, and user experiences that will drive the widespread adoption of this technology to reclaim our …
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!
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" – 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 – 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.
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 – 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 – 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" – 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 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 – 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 – 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!