Deploying intelligent networks

Internet traffic is growing exponentially as more and more users employ high-bandwidth applications such as on-demand, real-time video. As the network data rates approach and exceed 10 Gbps current communications processing strategies are becoming inadequate. In a new EDN on-line article entitled “The evolution to network flow processing”, Nabil Damouny of Netronome Systems delivers a detailed plan to enable the deployment of intelligent networks at these high data rates. According to Damouny, “With the explosion of Internet traffic, including bandwidth-hungry video, and the ever-increasing need for security, communication equipment needs to be content- and application-aware at increasingly higher and higher-speeds. This speed is approaching 10 Gbps at many points in the enterprise and carrier networks. Traditional network communication processors are not adequate to meet the L2-7 requirements at such sustained line speeds. A new architecture is needed to meet the performance and power requirements: the heterogeneous multicore, multiprocessing architecture.”