Recently I was leading the acceleration technics from virtualization point of view and how they can satisfy the “ need for speed ” requested by data intensive VNFs. Although virtualization brings flexibility, resource management and scalability, it adds an overhead of resource represented by the amount of dedicated resource to run an hypervisor. Virtualization introduce also the OVS component: Open virtual switch. This component is responsible of network bridging and routing in the virtualization domain. Historically, Openstack framework was built for IT and web application. Then it was adapted by Telecom vendor as the Telco cloud framework to implement the NFV shift in the telecom industry. OVS component is not a carrier grade component and represents a bottleneck point for data intensive VNFs. Understanding the Data path in a virtualization environment. Referring to VMWare technology, the below figure represents the data path in a virtualization environment. ...