What is VPP?¶
The FD.io VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. The FD.io’s Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology is a high performance, packet-processing stack that can run on commodity CPUs.
The benefits of this implementation of FD.io VPP are its high performance, proven technology, its modularity and flexibility, and rich feature set.
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Todo: Will add more detail on vendors later, line that was ommitted: “FD.io VPP is a productized commercial-grade network stack that has been use in products since 2002, by a number of vendors including Cisco and ZTE.”
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Todo: Have a short definition of a graph node
It is a modular design. The framework allows anyone to “plug in” new graph nodes without the need to change core code.