The Network Processing Forum this week released benchmark specifications for measuring the performance of network processors. The industry consortium started laying out its benchmarks in October; this ...

Cisco is announcing a 40-core network processor Monday that seems designed to upgrade its CRS-1 core router, though the company isn’t saying yet. Cisco won’t actually reveal what it plans to do with ...

SoC integrates functionality of multiple chips to deliver security, high through–put, and ease of use at low cost Using built-in hardware acceleration for content and security processing, the ...

The Xenon processor integrates a standard-compliant ITU G.983 MAC/framer and a network processor for broadband passive optical network (BPON) applications. Based on a high-performance dual-ARM9 core ...

Like far too many things in this world, enterprise networking seems to bounce between two extremes. One year, hardware acceleration is all the rage. The next, a software-only approach seeks to ...

Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled its QuantumFlow Processor, a networking semiconductor that has 40 cores on a single chip. The processor, the result of a five-year Cisco development effort, has a fully ...

As the Internet connections to local-area networks via edge devices have grown, the architecture of the overall system has become fragmented and difficult to manage. Other problems also have emerged, ...