For nearly five years, SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) has been successfully adopted by ever more enterprises to connect to branch
offices via virtual private networks (VPNs) over the internet, saving them on both operating and capital expenses. Until recently, the SD-WAN
virtualized network function (VNF) has run over DPDK with the use of general-purpose processors (CPUs) performing at sub-gigabit speeds, which
was sufficient to support the required services and branch office VPN connectivity.
However, as SD-WAN has begun to be adopted as a service for branch offices, there is demand to deliver higher throughput of 10Gbps to 40Gbps
to handle hub-and-spoke use cases such as telco central offices, data center-to-data center, cloud aggregation-to-endpoint, multiple dwelling units
(MDUs), large business parks, and campus aggregation connections.
Ethernity Networks Ltd (LON:ENET) is a leading provider of networking and security software solutions on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), incorporated into SoCs, SmartNICs, and network appliances. Ethernity was founded in 2004 and has its technology deployed in over 600K systems worldwide, connecting over 100M end users.