The Fast Software Router “Kamuee” vs. Linux

The word “SDN”, which means building a network by software, has spread, and there is a growing demand for highspeed processing of packets by software. “Kamuee”, developed by NTT Communications, is a high-speed software router with a route search algorithm, “poptrie”, and unique design using a high-speed packet processing library called “DPDK.” In this paper, we compare the performance of Kamuee with Linux L3 packet forwarding and show that Kamuee is much faster.