C-GEP: Platform demo for 100 Gbit/s network monitoring

Abstract

As the line rate reaches and exceeds 100 Gbit/s, the usage of hardware-accelerated networking equipment is getting a natural choice when evaluating newly developed network-related features. The requirement for high throughput and high level of reconfiguration together put Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology into the focus of high performance networking. In this demonstration, we show some of the capabilities of a new, 100 Gigabit Ethernet Evaluation Platform, called C-GEP. Since the hardware is reconfigurable, the platform can host a wide range of high-speed network specific applications, and it is aligned with the Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles. Our demonstration contains two different implementations of 100 Gbit/s-capable applications: a traffic generator and a traffic monitor engine. Our aim here is to show the feasibility of C-GEP for high-speed networking evaluations.