Jarrod Siket, NETRONOME SYSTEMS
As network traffic gets more voluminous, diverse, and unpredictable, the solutions that used to work well are being overtaxed. A new heterogeneous multicore architecture comes to the rescue.
Traffic volume in both enterprise and carrier networks continues to rise exponentially, scaling from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps and likely to rise to 100 Gbps in the near future. This rapid growth has been fueled by a combination of more network users, more devices and end points (like PCs, servers, mobile phones, IP phones, and IP set-top boxes), more applications carried by the converged network (such as VoIP, IPTV, P2P, Web 2.0, and network attached storage), and greater bandwidth demands by those applications.
