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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Napatech™ (OSLO: NAPA.OL), a leading provider of programmable SmartNICs, in partnership with Silicom, today announced availability of its Link-Virtualization™ FPGA-based SmartNIC software for Silicom's latest generation of Intel FPGA-based SmartNICs. The combination of Napatech's software and Silicom's SmartNIC increases the application, networking, security, and storage performance of servers deployed in virtualized datacenters.
Napatech's Link-Virtualization software is a production-grade, turn-key solution that harnesses the capabilities pioneered by hyperscale cloud service providers, and makes them readily available to cloud, 5G telecom, and enterprise datacenter networks of every size.
The software is optimized for Silicom's C5010X SmartNIC which was created from the recently announced Intel FPGA SmartNIC C5000X-PL platform, as well as the Silicom N5010 SmartNIC for high performance networking acceleration. The latest generation of Intel FPGA-based SmartNIC platforms are available with an array of hardware options and combinations including Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs, Intel Ethernet 800 Series controllers, and Intel Xeon D processors.