On (2013-06-28 13:24 +0300), John Kougoulos wrote: > "The Cisco 4451-X data plane uses an emulated Quantum Flow Processor > (QFP) that delivers application-specific integrated circuit > (ASIC)-like performance that does not degrade as services are > added."
I was surprised by this. I would have guessed that producing their own QFP in modern lithography process would be quite cheap. But that buying fast enough COTS CPU to emulate QFP is economic, interesting. I wonder what CPU they are using, octeon? -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
