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diff --git a/docs/overview/whatisvpp/dataplane.rst b/docs/overview/whatisvpp/dataplane.rst deleted file mode 100644 index daf2124158d..00000000000 --- a/docs/overview/whatisvpp/dataplane.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -.. _packet-processing: - -=================== -Packet Processing -=================== - -This section identifies different components of packet processing and describes their benefits: - -* Layer 2 - 4 Network Stack - - * Fast lookup tables for routes, bridge entries - * Arbitrary n-tuple classifiers - * Control Plane, Traffic Management and Overlays - -* `Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>`_ and `FreeBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>`_ support - - * Wide support for standard Operating System Interfaces such as AF_Packet, Tun/Tap & Netmap. - -* Wide network and cryptographic hardware support with `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>`_. -* Container and Virtualization support - - * Para-virtualized interfaces; Vhost and Virtio - * Network Adapters over PCI passthrough - * Native container interfaces; MemIF - -* Universal Data Plane: one code base, for many use cases - - * Discrete appliances; such as `Routers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)>`_ and `Switches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch>`_. - * `Cloud Infrastructure and Virtual Network Functions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_function_virtualization>`_ - * `Cloud Native Infrastructure <https://www.cncf.io/>`_ - * The same binary package for all use cases. - -* Out of the box production quality, with thanks to `CSIT <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT#Start_Here>`_. - -For more information, please see :ref:`features` for the complete list. - |