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RE: image stream routers

From: Greg Boehnlein <damin () nacs net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:19:08 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:

I'd be interested to know the relative pros and cons of switching packets in
software (Imagestream) versus handing them off to a dedicated ASIC (Cisco,
Juniper)


Probably a good question for Imagestream to answer, as I can't speak to 
it. I'd guess that at some point everything is Software Switched at some 
level.. the ASIC has to run some sort of software.. :)

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Current thread:

image stream routers Matt Hess (Sep 16)
- Re: image stream routers Greg Boehnlein (Sep 16)
  - RE: image stream routers Christopher J. Wolff (Sep 16)
    - RE: image stream routers Greg Boehnlein (Sep 16)
    - Re: image stream routers Lincoln Dale (Sep 16)
    - Quality of User Experience (was RE: image stream routers) Christopher J. Wolff (Sep 16)
    - Re: Quality of User Experience (was RE: image stream routers) Lincoln Dale (Sep 17)
    - Re: Quality of User Experience (was RE: image stream routers) Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 17)
    - Re: Quality of User Experience (was RE: image stream routers) Randy Bush (Sep 17)
    - Re: image stream routers tony sarendal (Sep 17)
    - Re: image stream routers sthaug (Sep 17)
    - Re: image stream routers tony sarendal (Sep 17)
    - Re: image stream routers tony sarendal (Sep 17)
    - Re: image stream routers Paul G (Sep 17)

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