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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<chapter id="hw_features">
  <title>Hardware Features</title>

  <para>ENEA NFV Core 1.0 leverages certain Hardware features within the ThunderX
  SoCs, the most important of them being DPDK and SR-IOV.</para>

  <para>ENEA's mission, through the OPNFV Armband project, is to extend the
  OPNFV capabilities on aarch64 commercial servers, including the Cavium
  ThunderX networking servers. ENEA NFV Core further extends the support for
  Cavium ThunderX by enabling DPDK and SR-IOV capabilities which do not work
  by default.</para>
</chapter>