Server-based open networking taxes the CPU, so offload to an intelligent server adapter

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Networking using commercial off the shelf (COTS) servers has been around for several years, thanks to the proliferation of Linux-based servers and network technologies like Open vSwitch (OVS).  The hope is that the switch world follows the servers’ successful path, hence the birth and popularity of