Amantya Technologies Successfully Integrates Napatech’s SmartNIC with its 5G UPF to Enhance 5G Core Performance

The integrated solution boosts throughput, scalability, and energy efficiency in private 5G networks

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GURUGRAM, India – August 1, 2024 – Amantya Technologies, a leading product engineering and system integration company, today announced a significant milestone in their strategic collaboration with Napatech, a leading provider of programmable Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs): the successful integration of Amantya Technologies’ robust 5G Standalone User Plane Function (UPF) with Napatech’s high-performance SmartNIC offload solution. This achievement enables a pivotal advancement in private 5G networks by optimizing the performance, scalability, and energy efficiency of the 5G core.

Amantya’s cloud-native and highly optimized 5G Standalone (SA) UPF supporting the Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements of 5G now leverages Napatech’s SmartNIC technology to accommodate significantly more users or devices per server compared to pure software solutions or competing offload solutions. The UPF offload solution adopts a “hair-pinned” architecture for the UPF data path, ensuring that once configured, all flows are handled directly on the SmartNIC without requiring traffic to traverse back and forth to the server CPU. This approach significantly enhances system performance while reducing the server CPU’s workload, allowing its resources to be allocated to control plane functions, edge applications, and services.

The enhancement reduces costs per user, improves energy efficiency, and ensures superior network performance. With Napatech’s NT200 SmartNIC, Amantya’s 5G UPF can sustain 2x 100 Gbps throughput without consuming any server CPU cores for the UPF data plane, allowing higher subscriber densities per edge server. The optimized solution reduces per-user server power consumption, lowers CAPEX and OPEX, and maximizes the availability of server compute resources for revenue-generating applications and services. The solution also achieves significantly lower latency than software-based UPF solutions, ensuring superior performance for mission-critical applications.

“Integrating Napatech’s SmartNIC with our 5G UPF significantly enhances our solution’s performance and scalability, enabling us to offer superior private 5G network services to our clients,” said Sanjay Bisen, CTO, Amantya Technologies. “This integration allows us to deliver high-quality, reliable, and energy-efficient solutions tailored for industries requiring mission-critical communications.”

“This collaboration showcases the power of our SmartNIC technology in optimizing 5G networks, delivering high throughput and energy efficiency,” said Charlie Ashton, Senior Director of Business Development, Napatech. “The NT200 SmartNIC maximizes the performance of UPF offload, processing up to 140 million concurrent flows with a flow learning rate greater than 3 million flows per second, achieving a total throughput of up to 185 million packets per second (stateless operation) and ensuring full 2x 100G wire speed operation for typical packet sizes.”

“AvidThink was pleased to feature Napatech’s 5G UPF offload solution in our report Realizing the Promise of Private 5G in 2024, and we are delighted to see Amantya’s success in delivering a high-performance packet core based on this technology,” said Roy Chua, Founder and Principal, AvidThink. As service providers and enterprises deploy private 5G, this joint solution can minimize the energy consumption, cost and footprint of their infrastructure, contributing significantly to improving the ROI for their networks.”

The integration of 5G UPF and SmartNIC technologies represents a significant step forward in advancing the capabilities of private networks, reinforcing the commitment by both Amantya and Napatech to driving innovation and providing value to their customers. Industries such as healthcare, government, utilities, universities, entertainment, and airports can greatly benefit from this optimized private cellular network infrastructure.

About Amantya Technologies
Amantya Technologies is a leading product engineering and system integration company with operations in the USA and India (Gurugram, Bangalore & Nagpur). A global organization with proven expertise in next-generation technologies like 5G, IoT, AI ML, edge, and cloud services, Amantya works with some of the world’s leading brands, including Fortune 500 companies. It creates business outcomes and helps its clientele stay competitive by leveraging solution accelerators, partner solutions, and deep domain expertise in wireless protocols, integration, testing, and hardware design and development. Additional information is available at www.amantyatech.com.

About Napatech
Napatech is the leading supplier of SmartNIC and IPU solutions used in cloud, enterprise and telecom datacenters. Through commercial-grade software suites integrated with high-performance hardware, Napatech accelerates network infrastructure, security and storage workloads to deliver best-in-class system-level performance while maximizing the availability of server compute resources for applications and services. Additional information is available at www.napatech.com.