Intel® FPGA SmartNIC N6000-PL Platform
High Performance Intel Agilex® FPGA-based SmartNIC Platform providing 2x100GE connectivity designed to support communications and networking workloads, such as 4G/5G Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN), Accelerated Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR), Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2), 5G User Plane Function (UPF) offload, Professional Media over Managed IP Networks, and more.
Overview
- Intel’s 3rd generation SmartNIC card provides 2 x 100Gbps Ethernet connectivity in a FHHL PCIe form factor card.
- Integrated support for IEEE 1588v2 PTP and SyncE for O-RAN, Broadcast and other markets that need timing synchronization support. The on-board OCXO provides timing accuracy and extended holdover.
- On-board Intel E-810 Ethernet Controller provides easy system integration with no changes to application software
- N6000-based SmartNICs come in two configurations:
- With on-board E810 Ethernet controller: PCIe 4.0 x8 lanes go to the FPGA and x8 lanes go to the Ethernet controller.
- Without Ethernet controller: PCIe 4.0 x16 lanes go to the FPGA.
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Browse solutions, production-ready COTS boards, and details for licensing the platform design.
Workload designs for the N6000 Platform are available through Intel and industry leading partners.
5G vRAN
All-in-one architecture encompassing xHaul + FEC + 1588 reduces total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Accelerated Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR)
All-in-one architecture encompassing vRouter + 1588 + Optional FHGW + Optional FEC offering lower latency and TCO.
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SMPTE ST 2110 Offload with JPEG-XS
Nearly zero host cores are used in professional video production workloads.
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Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2)
Low latency/jitter solution optimized for edge deployment where space and power are constrained.
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5G User Plan Function (UPF) Offload
Optimized for securing SR-IOV data plane applications allowing seamless migration from legacy SR-IOV to secured cloud.
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Production-ready COTS boards are available through ODM partners shown below.
Accelerate development of your own custom board by re-using the N6000-PL platform design:
- Board design files
- OFS, FIM designs
- BMC design
- Reference workloads
- Documentation
- Sample card
Contact sales about licensing the Intel SmartNIC N6000-PL Platform design.