Data Plane Development Kit
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DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) is a set of data plane libraries and network interface controller (NIC) drivers for fast packet processing. DPDK provides a programming framework for Intel x86 processors and enables rapid development of high-speed data packet networking applications. It ranges from Intel Atom processors to Intel Xeon processors, and support for other processor architectures such as IBM POWER8 is in progress. It is provided and supported under the open-source BSD license.