Programmable Network Processor

Engineering samples of a second-generation programmable network processor, the MXT4400, are available. The Traffic Stream Processor (TSP) enables communications equipment vendors to build software re-programmable systems -- including Internet routers, switches, and multiplexers -- that can process ATM, Packet-Over-SONET (POS) and Frame Relay traffic. The TSP is a high-performance, programmable packet and cell processor that currently supports applications at wire-speed up to OC-12c. It performs a variety of programmable traffic management and internetworking functions for up to 64,000 separate streams of IP or ATM traffic. The processor is also available with a production-grade network application called PortMaker, and features a comprehensive development environment that includes chip models, a complete software simulation environment, assembler, debugger, and will include a C-compiler.

The product can be used to provide a variety of network functions including encapsulation/de-encapsulation, Segmentation and Reassembly (SARing), label switching, virtual circuit/flow merging, traffic shaping and traffic policing. These programmable, advanced traffic management and internetworking services allow systems vendors to accelerate the development of a wide range of equipment including routers, ATM switches, Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs), and multi-service switches.

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