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Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: IDT
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2004
Search engines to support common
interface
By implementing the NPF Message Layer interface specification, IDT will enable a common language between its own network search engines and Intel's IXP2400 network processor units.
Integrated Device Technology is to implement the Message Layer interface specification, as defined by the Network Processing Forum (NPF), thus enabling a common language between its network search engines (NSEs) and content inspection engines (CIEs) and Intel IXP2400 network processor units (NPUs) to significantly ease and accelerate network equipment designs Announced in November 2003, the Message Layer Implementation Agreement (IA) defines the format and types of information exchanged between network processing elements (NPEs) such as NSEs, CIEs and NPUs within a networking device
As outlined in the NPF specification, this standardised communication enables system designers to construct networking equipment between individual components from companies including IDT and Intel, without the need for proprietary message formats.
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