Performant and Programmable Telco Networking with eBPF
The New Stack, Tuesday, August 29,2023
To go cloud native, telcos nee a way to decouple and abstract their workloads from the hardware details. eBPF can provide improved performance, simplified operations, and complete visibility.
To keep the world connected, telecommunication networks demand performance and programmability to meet customers when and where they are, from streaming the winning goal of the world cup to coordinating responses to the latest natural disaster.
When switchboards were still run by human operators, telco companies were all about custom hardware with 'black boxes' from vendors providing the speed the network needed. These black boxes controlled the performance of the network, which also made it dependent on where they were actually deployed.