Table of Contents
2 Introduction
2 Supermicro and ENEA uCPE Solutions
Supermicro Performance Optimized
Tier Featuring Intel® Xeon® D-1500
SoC
Supermicro Power Efficiency
Optimized Tier Featuring Intel®
Atom® C3000 SoC

White Paper

Supermicro and ENEA HighPerformance and Low-Power uCPE
Solutions for SD-WAN

Traditional NFV vs SD-WAN NFVENEA Software Stacks

5 Use Case (Single VNF Forwarding on
Xeon-D)
Performance Results: Single VNF
Forwarding (Xeon-D)
6 Conclusions

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Introduction

Key Benefits of SD-WAN vs Traditional
WAN
SD-WAN is one of the commonly
deployed SDN application used in WideArea Networks (WAN) connections. In
traditional WAN, users are required tolease expensive MPLS circuit to secure
their private network, and impracticalto scale-out due to prohibitive cost
structures and difficult to manage
without trained staff. By adopting new
SD-WAN technologies, TCO can be
reduced significantly when network
providers want to expand their network.
The SD-WAN router is able to aggregate
different links into one big trunk andallocate dynamically. Such the elasticity
achieves the ‘pay-as-you-use’ model toprovide better cost efficiency to endusers and on premises.
••Cost••Flexibility••

Deployment Time••

Security••

Manageability••

Cloud Access••

Bandwidth

Innovation and technology advances are accelerating the adoption of SD-WAN (Software
Define Wide Area Network) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) with a varietyof CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) devices. uCPE (Universal Customer PremisesEquipment) provides network platform suppliers, systems integrators and software
vendors the ability to quickly deliver managed services using software driven and virtual
network functions.
Current generation network equipment is built with purpose built proprietary hardware.
Propriety hardware based appliances offer single function boxes and complex tomaintain, slow and expensive to upgrade, and inhibits network platform suppliers fromdynamically offering new network services and functions.
Supermicro and ENEA uCPE solutions optimized for SD-WAN provide rapid deployment ofreal time network functions and eliminate the need for proprietary purpose built serversthat are hard to manage and maintain. The solution provides software configurablecommercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform that is usually deployed at customer site.
Service providers can run multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNF) such as routing, VPN
and firewall on Supermicro's standard x86 architecture based servers depending on user
requirements. uCPEs have the flexibility to rapidly roll out new functions and services
without the need of deploying new hardware at customer site, resulting in significant
CAPEX & OPEX reduction and time savings.
The uCPE solution takes advantage of innovations in SDN (Software-defined Networking)and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization). SDN and NFV are complementary but
increasingly co-dependent in order for the benefits of software-defined networking to be
fully realized.

Supermicro and ENEA uCPE Solutions
As a premier partner of Intel Select Solution uCPE program to lanuch the latest
technologies for different market segments & applications, Supermicro offers telecomoperators and service providers industry's broadest range of Building Block Solutions® toenabled customized software-defined solutions for different requirements.

Supermicro Performance Optimized Tier Featuring Intel® Xeon® D-1500 SoC
Supermicro® SuperServer® 5018D-FN8T with Intel® Xeon® D-1518 SoC offers 4-core/8threads processing power along with 6x 1 GbE LAN ports and 2x 10GbE LAN ports forhigh speed communication (Total of 8 LAN ports).

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Key Specifications••••••

Compact Design, < 10" depth
7 year life cycle
Intel® Xeon® processor D-1518,••4-Core, 8 Threads, 35W••Up to 128GB ECC RDIMM DDR4••
Dual 10G SFP+ and Six 1GbE LAN••
1 M.2 NVMe slot, SATA DOM support••
200W Gold-level power supply

Detailed Specifications

Figure 1.

Supermicro® SuperServer® 5018D-FN8T

In addition, it offers the capability to add a PCI-E 3.0 Card for other functions such as
Crypto card or additional Bypass LAN Ports. The SoC Design with Intel Xeon D CPU whichis rated at 35 Watts offers a very powerful and compelling solution, the industry’s mostcompact and short-depth 1U network appliance solution. Ideally developers can takeadvantage of industry advances in NFV, SDN and vCPE to build their own edge devices.

Supermicro Power Efficiency Optimized Tier Featuring Intel® Atom® C3000
SoC

Key Specifications••••••••••••Low Power, Low Cost Applications
Intel® Atom® processor C3850, 25W TDP
Up to 64GB Unbuffered ECC DDR44x 1GbE LAN, 1 dedicated IPMI LAN
1 M.2 NVMe slot, SATA DOM support
200W Low-noise AC-DC power supplyFigure 2.

Supermicro® SuperServer® 5019A-12TN4

Supermicro SuperServer® 5019A-12TN4 with Intel® Atom® C3850 SoC offers 12-core/12
threads processing power along with 4x 1 Gb Ethernet LAN ports. The SoC TDP is rated
at 25W and system comes with a 200W supply. The new Intel® Atom® Denverton (C3000)
SoC processors from 2- to 16- core options offers choice of low power and core count tobalance price/performance in a compact and short-depth 1U network appliance solution.

Detailed Specifications

Supermicro & Enea NFV AccessTraditional NFV Access

Platform RAM Footprint

Sub 1 GB

4-12 GB

Platform Disk Footprint

Sub 1 GB

4-12 GB

Minimal Platform CPU
Utilization

Down to a single core

2-4 cores

Platform Boot Speed(excl. BIOS)

Sub 3 seconds

10-30 seconds

Virtualized Network
Throughput over vSwitch

10 Gb IMIX Line Rate

1 Gb IMIX Line Rate

Virtualized Network
Latency over vSwitch

Average 10-15 µs

Average 25-75 µs

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Traditional NFV vs SD-WAN NFVThe table below summarized some key metrics of Supermicro and Enea NFV Accesscompared to traditional NFV access.

ENEA Software Stacks
Enea NFV Access features a lightweight virtualization software runtime platform
designed for deployment on edge devices at the customer premise. It is streamlined forhigh networking performance with minimal RAM footprint for both platform and VNFs,resulting in very high compute density.
Enea NFV Access provides a foundation for uCPE agility and innovation, reducing cost andcomplexity for computing at the network edge.
VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS(VNFs)CUSTOMER
VNFs
Customer
VNFs
CustomerElementVNFs
QosmosODM
IxEngine

VNF Ecosystem

Enea Linux
Enea VNF SDK

vProbeEnea Reference VNFs

ServiceClassifier

ServiceClassifiervProbeNFV uCPE INFRASTRUCTURE

Enea NFV Access
EdgeLink
Interfaces

System Management

VirtualMachines

Containers

NETCONFCLIKVM

DockerREST

Network Management

Docker
OpenStack(optional)Virtual Switch

FCAPS
Update and Package Management

OVS-DPDK

Virtualization Management
Security

Accelerated Data Path

Secure BootDPDK

SR-IOVWhitebox Hardware

Figure 3.

Enea NFV Access Standard Profile

The main features of Enea NFV Access include hardware accelerated virtualizednetworking, optimized data path, and mixed native virtual machine and native container
VNFs. Enea NFV Access is customizable and extensible with SDKs for FCAPS, containers
and bare metal applications, and offers multi-hardware architecture support, making it
white-box vendor agnostic.

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Enea NFV Access is based on open source technologies, and communicates overstandardized interfaces – including management over NETCONF.Enea NFV Access also
features the Enea uCPE Manager, a platform and VNF management platform which
control and monitor the uCPE using NETCONF protocol.
NFV
ORCHESTRATIONOSS/BSS
Customers OSS/BSS

Enea uCPE Manager
Lifecycle
Mgmnt

Virtual Infrastr.
Mgmnt

CustomerElement
Qosmos VNFs

Enea Reference VNFsvProbe

Enea
LinuxEnea
VNF
SDK

Service Service
vProbeClassifier Classifier

IxEngine

VNF Ecosystem

VNF Ecosystem EMS

NETCONF

Open Source
Orchestration
Ecosystem

REST

Commercial
Orchestration
Ecosystem

VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS(VNFs)CUSTOMER
VNFs
Customer
VNFs

ELEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMODM

NFV uCPE INFRASTRUCTURE

VNF
Mgmnt

Enea NFV AccessWhitebox Hardware

NFV Data Center

Figure 4.

Enea NFV Access Deployment Overview

Enea NVF Access Datasheet

Use Case (Single VNF Forwarding on Xeon-D)
The single VNF forwarding benchmark is used to test the throughput performance when
loaded with traffic through the ovs-dpdk, for a single VNFs. Both VMs (KVM/QEMU) andEnea NFV Access
User SpaceQEMU/KVM
DPDK/PMDVNF Space
PktgenDPDKLinux Tools andApps

Docker

OpenVSwitch-DPDKLinux Kernel

NIC

QEMU/KVM

DPDKIntel XeonD-1500

Intel XeonD

10Gb Ethcontainers (Docker) are used to benchmark the specific scenario. The native forwarding
benchmark result comparison is used to determine the impact of vSwitch and VNF usage.

White Paper - September 20185Performance Results: Single VNF Forwarding (Xeon-D)••The result show no significant performance difference between KVM/QEMU andDocker••

Line utilization at 64 byte packets utilize 74% of the physical max and 52% oftheoretical max••

Line rate speed of 10Gb down to 256 bytes packetsConclusions

6••

Both Xeon D and Atom processors are relevant for SD-WAN use cases, but delivery
different level of networking performance.

••The choice of processor is to a large extent determined by the overall networking
performance requirements of the solution.

••Entry-level SD-WAN solutions can utilize Atom based solutions, while more
complex or high performant SD-WAN solutions use the more powerful Xeon D.

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About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider ofadvanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems
worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its “We Keep IT Green®” initiative and provides customers
with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
Learn more on www.supermicro.com

About ENEA
Enea develops the software foundation for the connected society. We provide solutions for mobile network traffic management, network
virtualization, network traffic classification, embedded operating systems, and professional services. Solution vendors, systems integrators,
and service providers rely on Enea when creating new world leading networking products and services. More than 3 billion people aroundthe globe already depend on Enea technologies in their daily lives. Enea is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Learn more on www.enea.com

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