The Design of VPP, Vector Packet Processing
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2017-05-10

FD.io VPP is a modular, fast, scalable and deterministic data plane for NFV network workloads. Some common uses cases for VPP are as a vSwitch, a L3 Router, a vTEP, a Load Balancer, sockets applications and so much more, out of the box - no hacking required! It is optimized to take advantage of Intel Architecture Core and Platform accelerations to accelerate dataplane packet processing. It is permissively licensed as Apache 2, with a welcoming community of active developers behind it. It is exte