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Watch a comprehensive technical demonstration where Hedgehog's CTO and Chief Architect showcase their Transit Gateway solution designed to overcome the limitations of traditional switch-based VPC peering. Learn how the Hedgehog Gateway leverages CPU-rich, high-bandwidth commodity servers positioned in traffic flows between VPCs to enable stateful network functions like firewalling, NAT, and handling large routing tables that traditional switches cannot support due to CPU and RAM constraints. Discover how this solution achieves significant throughput targets of 40 Gbps initially, with plans for 100 Gbps and higher, by utilizing modern NICs with hardware offloads for NAT and VXLAN processing. Explore the gateway's operation as a VTEP that selectively advertises routes to attract specific traffic, performs necessary network transformations including implied NAT, and re-encapsulates packets for transmission to destination VPCs. Observe a live demonstration of VPC peering with basic firewall functions designed to replace existing Palo Alto Firewalls, showcasing how the gateway enables communication between VPCs with overlapping IP addresses through NAT functionality and comprehensive data plane visibility. Understand future enhancement plans including migration to DPUs like NVIDIA Bluefield for improved performance and reduced latency, support for multi-data center deployments through Kubernetes Federation, and expansion of security features including DDoS protection, IDS/IPS, and Layer 7 inspection capabilities.
