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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