The Network Processing Forum this week released benchmark specifications for measuring the performance of network processors. The industry consortium started laying out its benchmarks in October; this ...

A new generation of programmable network processors coming out this year may have a better shot than previous chips at getting into switches and routers, allowing vendors — as well as service ...

Advancements in LAN silicon continue, as Xelerated has started to ship a network processor capable of running 10 Gigabit Ethernet links. The fabless semiconductor company showed the X10q-e processor ...

Yokneam, Israel, December 2, 2008 — EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:EZCH, formerly LanOptics Ltd.), a fabless semiconductor company providing Ethernet network processors, today announced that it is ...

EZchip Technologies a fabless semiconductor company providing Ethernet network processors has announced that it has begun shipping samples of its NP-3, 30-Gigabit network processor, to customers. The ...

Like far too many things in this world, enterprise networking seems to bounce between two extremes. One year, hardware acceleration is all the rage. The next, a software-only approach seeks to ...

Programmable devices are driving ASICs out of their traditional homein the network communications market, according to Chuck Fox, president and chiefexecutive officer of Chameleon Systems Inc. of San ...

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As the Internet connections to local-area networks via edge devices have grown, the architecture of the overall system has become fragmented and difficult to manage. Other problems also have emerged, ...

Cisco Systems has agreed to buy SpansLogic, a privately held designer of network processing chips based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum. It plans to embed chips developed by ...