GAPP - GPU Accelerated Packet Processing

Benefits 

GAPP is a GPU-based network processing solution for high bandwidth networks. It offers operators a scalable and flexible approach to dealing with the avalanche of data in their networks, at a lower total cost of ownership.

• No expensive custom hardware, ASICs or specialised CPUs
• ≥10 Gbit/sec line rate
• packet processing conducted on hundreds of GPU cores 
  
• hugely reduced acquisition costs for complex applications
• considerably faster development times and time to market

 

GAPP - The Technology

Ngarua GAPP uses a GPU for packet processing, communicationg via a specialised high-performance I/O driver with the network interface (patent pending). Processing is offloaded entirely from the CPU, significantly reducing overhead.

We already have GPUs scaling to 40Gbit/sec, and they offer a superior processing roadmap to both general purpose and specialised processors.

GAPP's results for prefix lookup, a common operation in packet processing, shows orders of magnitude greater performance than high-end multicore CPUs, at a fraction of the cost.

Note: blue horizontal line in the graph below is the 1gbit/sec rate and the red line is the 10gbit/sec rate. 

 
 

Markets

The key market drivers like fixed/mobile convergence, packet core 4G networks, video and increased security concerns demand high-performance networking and processing.

GAPP's core processing power provides for new opportunities  to reduce costs and increase revenues across a wide range of domains:

network monitoring

deep packet inspection

routing

mobile infrastructure.

GAPP is software-based, so operators can develop, implement and modify applications far more quickly and cheaply than our hardware-based competitors.

Contact 

To learn more about how GAPP can help your network, please contact Stuart Barson:

Stuart Barson Business Development | stuart at ngarua.com | + 64 21 279 8907