An Intelligent NIC Solution Based on T4240 Processor

Abstract

Intelligent network interface cards are used throughout the servers deployed in compute, storage and network infrastructure. This paper presents an intelligent NIC solution based on Freescale T4240 processor. It is a low profile PCI Express card with 4 SFP+ ports, up to 128 virtual network interface and integrates standard NIC, SR-IOV, virtual switch functions. Moreover, it can not only offload TCP segment, IP fragment, QoS, filtering, but also route and bridge the data packets between the virtual machine and virtual machine, virtual machine and physical network, physical network and physical network. The solutions can be widely used in new cloud computing data centers that need to deploy SDN and NFV to reduce costs, increase network flexibility, scalability and reliability