COMMUNICATIONS & STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP

TRANSFORMING COMMUNICATIONS

Bob Ghaffari

November 8, 2012

Architect for next generation networks:

Intel’s Approach to Communications

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Video: Internet Minute

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>10 Years Serving Communications and Networking Segments

ACCESS NETWORKS EDGE/CORE NETWORKS ENTERPRISE NETWORKS

Intel Architecture Ecosystem + Standards

+

WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE

WIRELESS BASE STATION

MEDIA PROCESSING

ROUTERS AND SWITCHES

NETWORK SECURITY NETWORK

APPLIANCES

INTELLIGENT EDGE

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Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

Tick-Tock Development Model Sustained Microprocessor Leadership

Nehalem Microarchitecture

Sandy Bridge Microarchitecture

65nm

New Micro-

architecture

TOCK

Merom

45nm

New Process

Technology

TICK

Penryn

45nm

New Micro-

architecture

TOCK

Nehalem

32nm

New Process

Technology

TICK

Westmere

32nm

New Micro-

architecture

TOCK

Sandy Bridge

22nm

New Process

Technology

TICK

Ivy Bridge

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World Class Communication Infrastructure Grade Products

Reliability Profile

COMMS.

Product Lifecycle

COMMS.

Workload Focus

COMMS.

Thermal Profiles

COMMS.

Top To Bottom

Scalability

Designing for Communications

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Next Generation

Packet Processing

Control Processing

Signal Processing

Application Processing

Intel® Xeon® Processor

C3500/C5500 Crystal Forest

DSP

NPU/ASIC

DSP Intel® Signal Processing

Development Kit

One Instruction Set Architecture One Tool Suite

Multiple Opportunities

Intel® Data Plane Development Kit

Intel® QuickAssist Software Library

ENTERPRISE ACCESS

EDGE CORE

Workload Consolidation and Open Platforms to Transform the Industry

Consolidation: Four Workloads on One Architecture

Intel® QuickAssist Technology Community

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Video: Next-Generation Communications Platform Codename Crystal Forest

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Go Faster More Secure Lower Costs

• Packet Processing • Deep Packet

Inspection

Intel® Data Plane Development Kit

• Crypto • Compression

• SATA • USB

• 1, 10 and 40 Gb Ethernet

Up to 160 Mpps Up to 100Gbps

(Crypto) Intel® Architecture

1 to 16 cores

Intel Next-Generation Communications Platform Codename Crystal Forest

Intel® QuickAssist Technology

Data Processing I/O Comms I/O

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Intel® Data Plane Development Kit Delivering Breakthrough Packet Processing Performance

• Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK) embeds optimizations for the Intel Architecture Platform ‒ Data Plane Libraries and Optimized

NIC Poll Mode Drivers ‒ Runtime Environment (RTE) ‒ Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL)

and Boot Code

• BSD-licensed & source downloadable from Intel and leading Ecosystem partners

Intel® DPDK enables faster TTM for customers, and the industry as a whole

Intel DPDK Libraries

Intel® Architecture

Environment Abstraction Layer

Buffer Management

Customer Application

Linux* Kernel

Environment Abstraction Layer

Customer Application

Customer Application

Queue/Ring Functions

Packet Flow Classification

NIC Poll Mode Library

Kernel Space

User Space

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Intel® Architecture Performance

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IPv4 Layer 3 Forwarding throughput is normalized, using the left-most column as the baseline. Performance of a platform is shown in each subsequent column, relative to the the baseline. For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit http://www.intel.com/benchmarks

2008 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor L5410

(12M Cache, 2.33 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)

2010 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5645

(12M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 5.86 GT/s Intel® QPI)

2012 1S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2658

(20M, 2.10 GHz, 8.0 GT/s Intel® QPI)

IPv4 Layer 3 Forwarding

Intel® AVX2 = Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 Intel® DPDK = Intel® Data Plane Development Kit Intel® DDIO = Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology

Source: Intel Corporation

Integrated Memory Controller

Faster Caches

TLB Huge Pages

Intel® DPDK

PCIe* Gen3

Intel® AVX2

10x

16x Integrated PCIe*

Intel® DDIO

More Cores

More Cache

??x

Intel® DPDK Intel® DPDK

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Virtualization in Communications

Intel® Architecture Intel® 82599 10GbE

(SR-IOV)

Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)

Data Plane VM

Routing Stack (Forwarding Engines)

Virtual Switch

VF Fast Path

App / Service

Virtual Machine

App / Service

Virtual Machine

L2 Switch

VF VI VI

SR-IOV = Virtual Function Driver Integration

Intel® VT-d

• Deliver packets efficiently to the VM

• Communicate effectively between VMs

• Must address Comms infrastructure needs (smaller average packet size, faster delivery rate)

Key Challenges

• Open vSwitch optimizations

• L2 switch capability in Intel® Ethernet Controllers

• Architectural enhancements to close the gap between virtual and native performance

• Intel® DPDK optimizations for pass-through, VF and vNIC support

Key Plans

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Robust Ecosystem Supporting Crystal Forest

Live demos of the Crystal Forest platform will be featured

at Mobile World Congress, RSA and Embedded World.

Data Plane ISVs

• Real Time OS

• Network Stack

• Packet Processing

• Professional Services

Security ISVs

• VPN/Firewall

• SSL Acceleration

• Deep Packet Inspection

• Virtual Appliances

Board Vendors

• ATCA

• AMC

• CGRMS

• cPCI

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Platform Benefits

Platform Scalability

Lower Development Costs

Lower Operating and Cap Ex Costs

Platform Flexibility

Faster time to market

Faster time to deploy new services

Less-complex SW tools

Faster system integration

Intel Ecosystem - platforms, applications software and tools

Scalability

Flexibility

Efficiency

Thank You

For more information www.intel.com/go/commsinfrastructure

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Processor Features

• Up to 8 cores and support for two threads (Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology), up to 16 threads per socket

• 1 GB large page support

• 32-KB instruction and 32-KB data first-level cache (L1) for each core • 256-KB shared instruction/data mid-level (L2) cache for each core • Up to 20 MB last level cache (LLC): up to 2.5 MB per core

instruction/data last level cache (LLC)

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 2600 Series Based Processor

Socket

core core core core

core core core core

PCI Express

Integrated Memory

Controller Last Level Cache

Power Management

DMI

Memory

Memory

Memory

Memory x4 DMI 2.0 x16 x8

x8

Memory Support

• Up to 4 Channel 1600MHz DDR3 (12.8GB/s per channel) • 64 bit Wide Optional ECC • 2 DIMM Dual Rank for each interface • Up to 384 GB Capacity

I/O Optimizations

• Up to 40 Lanes PCI Express* Gen3 • Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology (Intel® DDIO) • Intel® VT for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) optimizations

(1GB/2MB TLB caching)

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect

• Two full width QPI links • Up to 8 GT/s, 16 GB/s per port • Support for multiple sockets