| Release notes for VPP 16.06 |
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| The FD.io Project, relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency |
| supporting the creation of high performance, flexible, and scalable |
| software defined infrastructures, announces the availability of the |
| community’s first software release (16.06). |
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| In the four months since launching, FD.io has brought together more than |
| 75 developers from 11 different companies including network operators, |
| solution providers chip vendors, and network equipment vendors who are |
| collaborating to enhance and innovate around the Vector Packet |
| Processing (VPP) technology. The FD.io community has quickly formed to |
| grow the number of projects from the initial VPP project to an |
| additional 6 projects addressing a diverse set of requirements and |
| usability across a variety of deployment environments. |
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| The 16.06 release brings unprecedented performance: 480Gbps/200mpps with |
| 8 million routes and 2k whitelist entries on standard high volume x86 |
| servers. |
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| Features |
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| In addition to the existing full suite of vswitch/vrouter features, the |
| new 16.06 release adds: |
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| - Enhanced Switching and Routing: |
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| - IPv6 Segment Routing multicast support. |
| - LISP xTR support. |
| - VXLAN over IPv6 underlay. |
| - Per interface whitelists. |
| - Shared adjacencies in FIB. |
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| - New and improved interface support: |
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| - Jumbo frame support for vhost-user. |
| - Netmap interface support. |
| - AF_Packet interface support. |
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| - Expanded and improved programmability: |
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| - Python API bindings. |
| - Enhanced JVPP Java API bindings. |
| - Debugging CLI. |
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| - Expanded Hardware and Software Support: |
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| - Support for ARM 32 targets including Rasberry Pi single-board |
| computer. |
| - Support for DPDK 16.04. |