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"A Guide to
Network Processors" has been extensively updated to include the latest disclosures from NPU vendors as well as 2008 market data.
Here are some of the many changes you will find:
- New quantitative market data, including:
- NPU-vendor market shares for 2008
- Market segmentation by application and performance
- Forecast for merchant NPUs through 2013
- Coverage of Broadcom’s new BCM88025, a 65nm NPU based on Sandburst’s FE architecture.
- Coverage of Xelerated’s new HX and AX lines, which represent the startup’s third generation products.
- Early information on Wintegra’s WinPath3 third-generation NPUs.
- Full details of EZchip’s new NPA line of access NPUs.
- Initial coverage of Centec Networks, the first Carrier Ethernet chip vendor based in China.
- Initial coverage of Tpack, which provides Carrier Ethernet processors implemented using Altera FPGAs.
- Coverage of new products from Cswitch and Lightstorm Networks.
- Extensive updates to company-background information, roadmaps where available, and analysis for major NPU vendors.
- A new section discussing Cisco’s QuantumFlow Processor and Alcatel-Lucent’s FP2, which are both in-house NPUs that reached production in 2008.
- Revised and updated tutorials.
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