What is VPP?

FD.io’s Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology is a Fast, Scalable and Deterministic, Packet Processing stack that runs on commodity CPUs. It provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality and much, much more. FD.io VPP is at the same time, an Extensible and Modular Design and Developer Friendly framework, capable of boot-strapping the development of packet-processing applications. The benefits of FD.io VPP are its high performance, proven technology, its modularity and flexibility, integrations and rich feature set.

FD.io VPP is vector packet processing software, to learn more about what that means, see the What is vector packet processing? section.

For more detailed information on FD.io features, see the following sections:

• Packet Processing
• Fast, Scalable and Deterministic
• Developer Friendly
• Extensible and Modular Design