Arthur Cole spoke with Jarrod Siket, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Netronome.

To explain the concept of network flow processing, Siket says, “As today’s data center and network converge to form a unified computing environment, requirements such as deep packet inspection, security processing, support for multi-core processors and virtualization, increased performance and green computing will have to be addressed and delivered. Eventually, every packet from every flow of communications services will need to be intelligently processed. A Network Flow Processor (NFP) is the common denominator that is capable of providing a high-speed, programmable data-plane with integrated, deep packet inspection, security and I/O virtualization for the servers, appliances and network elements that make up these designs, in both enterprise and carrier networks.”

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