OverviewΒΆ

Soft Patch Panel (SPP) is a DPDK application for providing switching functionality for Service Function Chaining in NFV (Network Function Virtualization).

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Fig. 1 SPP overview

With SPP, user is able to configure network easily and dynamically via simple patch panel like interface.

The goal of SPP is to easily interconnect NFV applications via high thoughput network interfaces provided by DPDK and change configurations of resources dynamically to applications to build pipelines.