-* FD.io (Fast data - Input/Output): a collection of several projects and libraries to
- amplify the transformation that began with Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) to support
- flexible, programmable and composable services on a generic hardware platform.
-* Open vSwitch: a production quality, multilayer virtual switch designed to enable
- massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard
- management interfaces and protocols.
+* OVS (Open vSwitch): a production quality, multilayer virtual switch designed to enable massive
+ network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols.
+* FD.io (Fast data - Input/Output): a high performance alternative to Open vSwitch, the core engine of
+ FD.io is a vector processing engine (VPP). VPP processes a number of packets in parallel instead of one at
+ a time thus significantly improving packet throughput.
+* DPDK: a set of libraries that bypass the kernel and provide polling mechanisms, instead of interrupt based operations,
+ to speed up packet processing. DPDK works with both OVS and FD.io.
+
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+MANO
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+OPNFV integrates open source MANO projects for NFV orchestration and VNF management.
+New MANO projects are constantly being added, currently OPNFV integrates:
+* OpenBaton: Open Baton is a ETSI NFV compliant Management and Orchestration (MANO) Framework.
+ It enables virtual Network Services deployments on top of heterogeneous NFV Infrastructures.
+ OpenBaton is also used to deploy vIMS (clearwater and openIMS).
+