ADVA commissioned EANTC to perform tests and evaluate the 6WIND VSR performance on uCPE while deploying the Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) as an acceleration option.
Intel developed this technology to offer a hardware solution for cryptographic operations that frees up the CPU for other tasks.
ADVA wanted EANTC to verify the boost the Intel QAT adds to the performance of the uCPE. Additionally, to demonstrate SmartWAN vRouter’s scalability and high network functionality capabilities.
To carry out these tests, EANTC decided to use two different setups. One had a 6WIND VSR loaded on a bare-metal server, while the other had the VNF hosted over ADVA’s Ensemble Connector. We wanted the bare-metal platform as a reference point that illustrates ADVA’s hosting layer effect.