How to increase the network Device performance in Cloud Data Center?

According to the report of Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2011–2016, the Internet is forecast to reach the zettabyte era in 2016, but the data center has already entered the zettabyte era.  The Internet traffic and IP WAN networks is projected to reach 1.3 zettabytes per year in 2016, and the data center networks is already 1.8 zettabytes per year, and by 2016 will nearly quadruple to reach 6.6 zettabytes per year.

To successfully support a range of application types is a central requirement of data center architectures. Following are some of the key requirements: 

• Performance—High performance is essential to employee productivity, customer satisfaction and the enterprise’s bottom line. 
• Availability and Continuity—In order to protect an network connection and security application keeps protect Telecom customers’ information, network device in carrier network and data center must be available and keep their productivity must not suffer when failures occur.
• Scalability- A successful Telecom carrier and Internet Data Center must be able to readily a cost-effectively scale business applications, even when capacity limits are reached within existing data centers.
• Accessibility- Enterprises must support access from corporate headquarters, branch offices, other business establishments, home offices, wireless hotspots and cellular networks throughout the world.

A)     High Performance –

The newest AEWIN network solution for cloud data center is chose the highest performance Dual and Quad Intel Sandy / Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2600 and E5-4600 series processer and C604 PCH.  The SCB-9651 has built with Quad Intel newest generation processor and 32 cores.  The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product families are the next generation of 64-bit, multi-core enterprise processors built on 32-nanometer process technology and designed for a two chip platform consisting of a processor and a Platform Controller Hub (PCH) enabling higher performance, easier validation, and improved x-y footprint.  Especially, the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family processor supports scalable server and HPC platforms of two or more processors, including “glueless” 4-way platforms.

In Carrier Grade network devices need highest computing power to meet the highest network processing requirement.  In this Carrier grade network solution segment, AEWIN choose the latest Intel® Xeon® processor with four cores per processor in SCB-9651, SCB-9650 and SCB-9610 network platform. Each processor supports Simultaneous Multithreading Technology (SMT) in a Dual Processing (DP) configuration interconnect with the I/O Hub (IOH) chipset through the latest Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI) system bus offering high-bandwidth data transfer between the processors and the IOH chipset. Besides, each processor supports three channels of DDR3 memory providing a high throughput for network processing performance.

Intel DPDK is a set of Linux user space libraries that provides low-level building blocks for customers to create their own high performance data plane applications and network stack. This solution requires additional development effort and is intended for customers who want to develop their own proprietary data plane.  AEWIN software team invest much time to deploy Intel DPDK model in AEWIN SCB-9651, SCB-9650 and SCB-9610 Intel Xeon E5-4600 and E5-2600 series process to make Data Plane and Control Plane’s performance.

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