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Packet acceleration is a key component in achieving performance efficiency for your workloads. Packet acceleration lets you optimize your workloads to get maximum throughput, high network bandwidth, minimal latency, and reduced cost. Industries such as Telco, Media & Entertainment, Robotics, and Internet of Things (IOT) have been key users of packet acceleration using SRIOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) to cater for their high computing requirements.
SRIOV enables hardware-based acceleration in a virtualized environment that provides higher I/O performance, lower CPU utilization, higher packet per second (PPS) performance, and lower latency. DPDK provides software-based development kit, which bypasses the operating system (OS) kernel and reduces packet processing overhead, resulting in performance improvement and lower latency.