Partner Information

As the Number 1 vendor of FPGA-based programmable SmartNICs, Napatech leverages the extensive portfolio of AMD Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), in combination with its own commercial-grade software suites, to accelerate and offload a variety of workloads in cybersecurity, financial systems, mobile infrastructure, data centers, network appliances and monitoring solutions.

End-users who adopt Napatech’s SmartNIC solutions benefit from a true “IT” experience, whereby they simply install a card, load a driver and achieve seamless acceleration of common applications, both commercial and open source, with no need for custom programming at either the application or FPGA level.

Napatech’s SmartNIC solutions deliver best-in-class performance on key metrics such as throughput, latency, jitter and synchronization, ensuring maximum application performance while freeing up server compute resources. The solutions can be deployed either in physical appliances or in virtualized / cloud-native environments with support for OpenStack, OpenShift and Kubernetes.

Napatech’s software suites support three major types of use case:

• The inline networking software suite “Link-Inline™” for active, in-band inline applications in security, packet processing, WAN acceleration, packet core etc.

• The virtual switch offload software suite “Link-Virtualization™” for virtual switching in edge and cloud data centers, to maximize performance and optimize server utilization.

• The packet capture software suite “Link-Capture™” for passive, out-of-band capture-oriented applications in security, network monitoring, financial systems etc.

In addition, Napatech offers a do-it-yourself option “Link-Programmable™” for developers who need to create custom FPGA software using a proven development environment.