OpenFastPath Foundation Information

OpenFastPath (OFP) Foundation aims to create and develop an open source fast path TCP/IP stack, designed to run in Linux user-space. The OFP project is based on the user space FreeBSD implementation and the code is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. The OFP Foundation, created by Nokia, Enea and ARM operates as a nonprofit organization, open to anyone who will participate in the efforts to advance the development of OFP. Among the founders we approach the project from three different perspectives, (1) as an ecosystem builder to allow for a multivendor System on Chip (SoC) solutions, (2) as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) to provide services based on the OFP code and (3) as an end user, considering OFP in the products. Our joint goal is to create a vibrant open source community where participants contribute their own code and technologies that facilitate more efficient networking solutions, leverage hardware acceleration, and lower the barriers to building network applications in multivendor environments. In order to fully utilize acceleration in current state of the art System on Chip (SoC) architectures and provide an IP stack with optimal performance across hardware architectures OFP utilizes the APIs from OpenDataPlane (ODP). We are open to welcome members who would like to add support for other industry APIs like DPDK.