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....firewalls, intrusion detection, proxies, level n switching, packet tagging, overlay networks continues to grow. Although software based routers have historically been built from PC class machines with conventional network interface cards (NICs) 13, 19] the emergence of network processors [8, 10, 25] makes it possible to significantly improve the performance of software based routers at a modest increase in cost. For example, this paper describes a router, built from a PC using a 733MHz Pentium III and an IXP1200 development board, that demonstrates nearly an order of magnitude improvement in ....

....example, the Intel IXP1200 contains six MicroEngines, each supporting four hardware contexts. The intention is that during regular execution one of these contexts is doing real work while the others are blocked on (hiding) a memory operation. The IBM PowerNP and Vitesse IQ2000 use similar designs [8, 25]. This paper describes the design and implementation of a software based router that uses the IXP1200 network processor. The router implements both the data plane that forwards packets, and the control plane where signalling protocols like RSVP, OSPF, and LDP run. On a pure PC based router, both ....

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. IQ2000 Network Processor Product Brief, 2000.

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