Radisys plants flag in NFV biz

Radisys has joined the SDN/NFV race, launching a combo of chassis and software targeting mobile operators.

Available in six-slot, 640 Gbps throughput or 14-slot, 2 Tbps throughput versions, the company's T100 chassis can be filled with either its A2470 switch blade (with integrated packet classification and load balancing) or Xeon E5 2600 v3-based A4700 (targeting virtualised applications).

The kit runs 100 Gbps optical interfaces, and integrates its FlowEngine data plane software supporting the software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) capabilities.

The A4700-T100 combo can also run Intel's Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) to provide NFV operations for deep packet inspection (DPI) functions at layers 5-7.

FlowEngine also supports service chaining through multiple virtualised network functions, and maintains flow affinity so that packets belonging to a particular flow always get routed to the

The company says it's trying to provide data plane applications able to to classify packet flows for DPI and load balancing, and let operators run these functions on generic platforms without merchant silicon.

The company's canned release says putting DPI and load balancing into a single platform lets operators free up the CPU capacity they have in other environments. ®