In a recent testing, certified by Intel engineers, Metaswitch has demonstrated the Metaswitch Fusion Core User Plane Function (UPF) delivering superior 5G packet processing throughput when deployed within containers on standard server platforms leveraging Intel Xeon Gold 6254 scalable processors.
Employing Internet MIX (IMIX) traffic profiles and using a total of 34 CPU cores, a single-server UPF achieved a packet throughput of over 500 Gbps using a benchmark mobile data pipeline.
A long-time Intel Network Builders partner in the area of data plane acceleration, Metaswitch has developed a complete cloud-native 5G core solution featuring a pure software UPF that meets the performance and resource efficiency needs of high-throughput 5G networks. To fulfill the UPF functionality, the Metaswitch solution is built to run on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers powered by Intel Xeon processors. It features an industry-leading, high-performance, forwarding engine and a unique distributed state implementation for resiliency and granular scalability cloud infrastructures. This is achieved on an extraordinarily small processing footprint at a very low price point, which is increasingly important for platforms deployed within MEC environments.
The test comprised 100,000 sessions from 160 simulated gNBs with a total of 10,000 Access Control Lists (ACLs) provisioned. A complete UPF packet processing pipeline was utilized with full GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) encapsulation/decapsulation plus session-based policing and metering. Two asymmetric traffic profiles were used, with differing ratios of uplink to downlink traffic.
