Intel PAC N3000 - FPGA for Network Applications


    In full accordance with the theme of the Mobile World Congress 2019 exhibition, which is taking place in Barcelona these days, Intel presented a number of new products designed for the telecommunications industry. We want to pay attention to one of them; it is quite specific and will not be used widely, but, on the other hand, reflects current trends in the field of network devices. This is the Intel PAC N3000, Intel's first dedicated FPGA accelerator for network virtualization.

    The full name of the device is Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000. It is made in the form factor of a PCIe card and includes three main components: a network controller, a main FPGA and an auxiliary system chip. Intel positions the PAC N3000 as a hardware basis for building a variety of virtualized network solutions that require processing and analysis of network traffic at speeds up to 100 Gb / s in real time and with minimal delay. Such solutions can be used in the packet cores of wireless operators, especially with an eye to future 5G networks, which will undoubtedly bring us new processing tasks, in data centers of large and not-so-network services, for stand-alone network applications - wherever an up-to-date and modern concept is used NFV, Network Function Virtualization.



    PAC N3000 is distinguished from specialized network solutions of other manufacturers (of which there are many on the market) due to its versatility, due to the wide distribution of the hardware components included in it and a lot of compatible software. Intel personally provides a variety of libraries, code samples, development tools, etc., to speed up the process of creating applications and their commercial launch.
    Software
    Suggested Roles (Supported by Intel)
    • Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG): H-QoS, Classification, Policing, Scheduling, Shaping
    • Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)
    • 5G Next Generation Converged Network (NGCN)
    • IPsec
    • Segment Routing for IPv6 Vector Packet Processing (SRv6 VPP)
    • Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN)
    Supported Development Tools
    • Intel Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK)
    • Open Programmable Acceleration Engine (OPAE)
    • Intel Quartus Prime
    • Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL
    Hardware components
    Basic hardware
    • Intel Arria 10 FPGA
    • Dual Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710
    • Intel MAX 10 FPGA Baseboard Management Controller
    • Intel Enpirion Power Solution
    Built-in memory
    • 9 GB DDR4
    • 144 MB QDR-IV
    Network interfaces
    • 2 x QSFP28

    Form factor
    • PCIe 3.0 x16
    • Half length full height
    Intel PAC N3000 ordering information can be found on the Intel website .

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