Helium EC2004Y
Marvell OCTEON TX2 CN9670 based 24-core ARM64 SOC SmartNIC with 4 ×25G ports
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PCIe Gen4 x8 host interface
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4x25GE SFP28 network interfaces
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100Gbps typical mixed traffic processing
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24-core ARM Marvell CN9670 DPU @ 1.8GHz
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32GB DDR4 (expandable to 64GB), 64GB eMMC storage
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Fully open software support (DPDK, VPP, SPDK, Ubuntu)
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Power-efficient: 60W typical

SmartNIC Based on Marvell Octeon TX2 CN9670, 4x25GE 100Gbps DPU for Network Acceleration,
Storage Acceleration, Security Acceleration
Asterfusion EC2004 SmartNIC based on Marvell OCTEON TX CN9670 which contains 24 -core ARM processors with 4×25G SFP28 ports, along with multiple integrated hardware-acceleration co-processors that accelerates workloads for data center, cloud, Web2.0, security and storage scenarios.
By offloading the main CPU, it can focus on computing and applications instead of storage, security or networking function, which enables users to build high-performance programmable networks while preserving computing resources in servers.
Specification
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Software: Standard Linux Kernel + Container Architecture + DPDK/VPP Development Kit

Asterfusion SmartNIC comes with a basic network operating system – FusionNOS, which can be used as the foundation to develop user’s upper-layer applications.

- Through a very simple compilation process various x86-based DPDK applications and generic Linux drivers can be easily ported to Asterfusion Helium SmartNIC.
- DPDK, VPP, SPDK and Ubuntu Support
Applications
Network Acceleration
Asterfusion Helium SmartNIC supports network function accelerations such as VTEP, OVS offload, TCP offload, GRE/GTP tunnel encapsulation and decapsulation, reliable UDP, and 5G-UPF acceleration.
Security Acceleration
Asterfusion Helium SmartNIC supports security function accelerations such as IPSec, SSL, XDP/eBPF, vFW/vLB/vNAT, DPI, and DDoS defense.
Storage Acceleration
Asterfusion Helium SmartNIC supports storage function accelerations such as NVMe-oF (TCP) and data compression/decompression


Asterfusion shares product information and code with customers, welcoming you to establish the DPU product ecosystem.
Warranty
Warranty
Frequently Asked Questions
Sorry no, currently some Xilinx FPGA based cards supports P4, but our card target to support stateful network traffic processing, such as session tracking and higher layer protocol processing, so we choose DPU as the core of our card, on which you can use DPDK/VPP and C to programme. Also ,big buffer, big table needs big memory, we can provide it.
Yes.by using DPDK/VPP, you can implement features not only L2/L3 where P4 is suitable, but also L4~L7 where P4 is not good for.
We have C programmable network cards, you can use DPDK/VPP on the card.
64bytes, 33Mpps
Yes, we support both NVMe and virtio with our driver.
Do you mean the packet forwarding rate? it’s 120Mpps.
The memory default is 16G ,but it can expand to 64G.
We have 2 options: provides 4 x SmartNIC to install in your existing server, or we provide 2 x ET3424A device. Since you need a cost-effective solution we suggest you buy 4 smartnic cards that install your server is cheaper than 2 units ET3424.
We have an OVS software for SmartNIC, but we still prefer our partner to run their own OVS and openstack software on the NIC, because usually different user has different software requirement. But surely, we can help to delivery turnkey solution if end customer needs, we can provide software development for the case.
DPDK 19.11 &VPP 19.08
Yes, it could support from docker.
Yes, we support SPDK
Related to XDP, we have done some verification, it’s compatible.
Yes. For more information please visit: https://github.com/asterfusion/Helium_DPU