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News Release from: IDT | Subject: 75S20036A Route Accelerator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 March 2008
Packet header processor finds a faster
route
Search architecture features automated table management and power efficiency optimisation to enable the large forwarding tables required for advanced network applications.
New from IDT, the Route Accelerator is a power-efficient cost-effective packet header processing device optimised for complex forwarding and routing in enterprise, metro- and carrier-class switch and router applications The 75S20036A Route Accelerator is based on a novel algorithmic search architecture featuring automated table management and power efficiency optimisation which enables the large forwarding tables required for advanced network applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Route Accelerator is available as a stand-alone device or integrated with the high performance IDT Search Accelerator family, using the same footprint and interface.
The combined Search and Route Accelerator solution can be tailored to IDT customers' specific classification and forwarding requirements, enabling industry-leading performance with the lowest power per entry searched.
Equipment providers that implemented solutions with IDT Search Accelerators can easily implement the Route Accelerator to preserve their hardware and software investments by utilising the pin and software compatibility between the two devices.
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In addition, customers that currently use external memory for their forwarding tables can now realise over a 40% reduction in pin count on the packet processor interface by consolidating all of their policy and forwarding search requirements onto the same subsystem.
The Route Accelerator addresses a wide range of applications such as IPv4/IPv6 unicast and multicast forwarding, flow-based routing, L2/L3 virtual private networks (VPNs), and multiple-protocol label switching (MPLS), while providing customers the maximum level of storage efficiency through support of application-optimised key sizes.
Using an innovative algorithmic architecture combined with its integrated table management engine (TME), the device significantly simplifies table management beyond previously available solutions while offering very high performance and reducing the cost and power of the overall system.
The Route Accelerator addresses strict system-level availability and uptime requirements from leading service providers by offering enhanced error detection and correction (ECC) both background ECC scan and on-the-fly (OTF) error detection and correction during a search function are offered, making it the most reliable search solution in the market capable of supporting "six-nines" system reliability.
The Route Accelerator is supported by a highly integrated software package and evaluation system which reduces implementation costs, shortens time to market, and protects the end user's software investment.
The IDT Search Accelerator family is the first in the industry to deliver one billion searches per second performance, integrated ECC, and an IPv6-optimised 80bit DDR interface.
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