Doug Comer on NPUs...

Doug Comer, super champion of NPUs, on leave from Purdue to Cisco, has written a very comprehensive overview of the NPU market, how and why you need an NPU, and where we are going. Network Processors - Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2004-The Internet Protocol Journal - Cisco Systems. Doug also has some nice words for IP Fabrics.

“Another pleasant exception comes from IP Fabrics, which has focused on building tools to simplify programming. Like Agere, IP Fabrics has developed a high-level language that allows a programmer to specify packet classification and the subsequent actions to be taken. The language from IP Fabrics is even more compact than the language from Agere.”

thanks doug!