Ericsson NFV Infrastructure Solution Integrated with Netronome Agilio SmartNIC Platform Delivers High Operational Efficiency

Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions and Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, today announced support for the Agilio® CX SmartNIC platform in the Ericsson NFV infrastructure (NFVi) solution. The Agilio CX platform offloads and accelerates datapath processing in the Ericsson NFVi solution, freeing up CPU cores for vital revenue generating applications while keeping virtual machines (VMs) and virtual network functions (VNFs) hardware independent for fast onboarding and optimum placement in the server infrastructure. With relentless increase in mobile data traffic rates and the advent of 5G speeds, this innovative solution gives the Telco operators a powerful tool to improve performance across the wide range of NFV and IT workloads while improving the utilization of the server infrastructure.