Jon Pounder wrote: > This sounds like a bunch of gobbledegook spewed out by those very "high > end" firewall vendors. Call it what you want but anything that processes > packets in any way and makes a decision on what to do is by definition a > CPU.
You won't find much support for that opinion in network engineering circles. The processing advantage of ASICs is easily measured and widely documented. ASICs are particularly critical to latency-sensitive protocols and those using small packet sizes with correspondingly high packet counts. According to Praveen Kumar (Founder/CEO of Packet Island) the ASIC differential is even more noticeable with interactive streaming video than streaming audio. Roger Marquis _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
