WHITE PAPER page 1 of 9 Netronome Systems, Inc. INTRODUCTION Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) is the core of the 3G and 4G mobile network used for ser- vice provisioning for mobile users. The main functionality of the EPC is it acts as an interface between the 3G and 4G radio interfaces and public IP networks. vEPC is implemented as vir- tual machines (VMs) on COTS servers. These services involve transfer of voice, data and video from a mobile device to an IP network. Netronome Agilio® SmartNICs provide a 5X increase in vEPC bandwidth on the same number of CPU cores by using the OVS offload and SR-IOV technologies. Evolved Packet Core (EPC) has been deployed for many years in various platforms using dedicated servers for mobile traffic workloads within the core network. Since mobile

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