Running vBNG as the workload of compute nodes is one of the proposed options for the SEBA Exemplar Platform. This talk will explore what options are there to improve performance parameters of such application with P4 programmability and FPGA SmartNICs. Deutsche Telecom’s open source P4 implementation of BNG pipeline will be used as a reference to provide results and suggest improvements. Non-P4 features such as QoS will be addressed as well in order to emphasize the need for P4 language evolution and interoperability.
