19 Jul
1996
19 Jul
'96
10:56 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
I assume that the mondo-routers have a switching engine, and the only job of the main CPU/gated combo is to feed the current idea of the best next-hop/interface to the engine.
Current mondo-routers like Netstar uses a switch fabric to parallelise switching. It becomes pretty obvious that at OC-N speeds current serial backplane architecture doesn't scale Handling routing updates, unlike switching packets, is more a function of CPU and software routines. -dorian