Fully Programmable
- Enables the addition of new services
and features without impacting traffic - Enables developers to develop new
code and drive innovation - Avoids vendor lock-in & eliminates the
need to wait for silicon upgrades - Allows for customer programmability
- Utilizes industry standard P4 programming language
Fully Automated & Scalable
- Advanced Self-forming & Self-discovery
functions - Zero Touch Provisioning of the virtual networking/components
- Automated software upgrades
- Significantly lowers OPEX
- Minimizes human intervention and lowers provisioning times from several days to minutes
Fabric Slicing Capabilities
- Provides full support for network
virtualization (e.g. Slicing) - Enables allocation of physical resources
into multiple isolated networking slices
called vFabrics - Enables the assignment of vFabrics to
different virtual DC operators - Enables DC operators to faster provision
new customers in software - Provides full isolation between customers/tenants
vSwitch Offload
- Minimizes compute resources
- Ultra-low latency
- Increases throughput per server
Networking Whitebox Support
- Significantly lowers CAPEX
- Support for networking white boxes from
- Accton and Delta
- Runs on commodity hardware using
merchant silicon
Integrated vRouter
- Fully featured virtual router embedded in
the fabric - Eliminates the need to purchase a
separate physical router - Positioned for service function chaining
- Maximizes performance by having the
routing data plane in the fabric