Keeping pace with rapidly evolving network technology presents a
perplexing problem where equipment providers are challenged to
increase processing performance and also deliver flexible, scalable
solutions that meet their customers' requirements.
In recent years, network processors (NPUs) have gained in
popularity because of their versatility.
However, compute-intensive packet searches that serve such
purposes as routing, security, access control, and content-aware
data distribution, can quickly consume an NPU's processing
power.
A free white paper, "Meeting Today’s Packet Processing
Challenges" helps designers learn more about the latest
technologies available to process packets in modern IP
networks.
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