OPNFV Summit 2015

The goal of Dpacc project is to specify a general framework for VNF data plane acceleration (or DPA for short), including a common suite of abstract APIs at various OPNFV interfaces, to enable VNF portability and resource management across various underlying integrated SOCs or SHV server platforms that may employ either software or hardware accelerators. This presentation will showcase live demos for the proposed Dpacc architecture, survey concurrent work threads within OPNFV and relevant upstream projects, and discuss remaining issues for ongoing work. The demos include several VNFs (IPSec GW, SFC, DPI) utilizing either software acceleration or integrated/attached hardware accelerators, implementations of proposed acceleration abstraction layers (enhanced DPDK/ODP/virtio) over X86 or ARM SoC servers, and an Openstack-prototyped VIM with Nova enhancements for acceleration management.