Over the last few years, equipment manufacturers have increasingly demanded complete hardware platforms, such as VME or high-availability CompactPCI systems. As implemented in the multi-service ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

The paper describes how, with a SOPC (System on a Programmable Chip) architecture embedded with a 32-Bit NIOS-II, a Layer 2 Ethernet switch can be implemented in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) ...

Rate your favorite Cisco Press books. Chapter 3, “Switch Operation,” presents a functional overview of how multilayer switching (MLS) is performed at Layers 3 and 4. The actual MLS process can take ...

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Much is being made of Facebook's Open Compute Project's announcement that they were soliciting input for an open source top-of-rack switch. Soliciting input from the industry and getting sign-off from ...