Shaping the Future of IP Broadcasting with Cisco's vMI and DPDK on Windows - Harini Ramakrishnan, Microsoft & Michael O'Gorman, Cisco
Speakers: Michael O'Gorman, Harini Ramakrishnan
The video broadcasting industry is undergoing a massive transformation, moving from domain specific Serial Digital Interface (SDI) interconnects, to an IP-based network. Media software vendors are accelerating this network re-architecture, scaling to meet bandwidth demands of next-gen media formats. Cisco’s virtual media interface(vMI) is a software toolkit – open sourced as “Herrison” – for media vendors undergoing this transition.
We are pleased to announce that Cisco, in partnership with Intel and Microsoft, is making this software toolkit highly optimized for media applications using DPDK on Windows, the platform of choice for media software vendors. We will talk about how vMI uses DPDK on Windows to overcome the performance limitations of kernel mediated IO. We will then demonstrate how vMI realizes capacity at parity with legacy SDI, scaling from 5HD streams to 62HD steams representing over 100Gbps in throughput. Lastly, we will talk about how media appliances can incorporate this solution to reap the benefits of the efficient path to the NICs.
Speakers: Michael O'Gorman, Harini Ramakrishnan
The video broadcasting industry is undergoing a massive transformation, moving from domain specific Serial Digital Interface (SDI) interconnects, to an IP-based network. Media software vendors are accelerating this network re-architecture, scaling to meet bandwidth demands of next-gen media formats. Cisco’s virtual media interface(vMI) is a software toolkit – open sourced as “Herrison” – for media vendors undergoing this transition.
We are pleased to announce that Cisco, in partnership with Intel and Microsoft, is making this software toolkit highly optimized for media applications using DPDK on Windows, the platform of choice for media software vendors. We will talk about how vMI uses DPDK on Windows to overcome the performance limitations of kernel mediated IO. We will then demonstrate how vMI realizes capacity at parity with legacy SDI, scaling from 5HD streams to 62HD steams representing over 100Gbps in throughput. Lastly, we will talk about how media appliances can incorporate this solution to reap the benefits of the efficient path to the NICs.
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