7 This section identifies different components of packet processing and describes their benefits:
9 * Layer 2 - 4 Network Stack
11 * Fast lookup tables for routes, bridge entries
12 * Arbitrary n-tuple classifiers
13 * Control Plane, Traffic Management and Overlays
15 * `Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>`_ and `FreeBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>`_ support
17 * Wide support for standard Operating System Interfaces such as AF_Packet, Tun/Tap & Netmap.
19 * Wide network and cryptograhic hardware support with `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>`_.
20 * Container and Virtualization support
22 * Para-virtualized intefaces; Vhost and Virtio
23 * Network Adapters over PCI passthrough
24 * Native container interfaces; MemIF
26 * Universal Data Plane: one code base, for many use cases
28 * Discrete appliances; such as `Routers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)>`_ and `Switches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch>`_.
29 * `Cloud Infrastructure and Virtual Network Functions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_function_virtualization>`_
30 * `Cloud Native Infrastructure <https://www.cncf.io/>`_
31 * The same binary package for all use cases.
33 * Out of the box production quality, with thanks to `CSIT <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT#Start_Here>`_.
35 For more information, please see :ref:`features` for the complete list.