Comments on: CommSemi Nightmares — 802.3 L3+ chips are just “a backplane device”

By: Chip vendors (BRCM & CAVM) partner on Linux switches « Iain’s Chips & Tech

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:01:53 +0000

[...] fyi … This is a concrete example of what I described in a “rant” in June. “CommSemi Nightmares — 802.3 L3+ chips are just “a backplane device” [...]

By: Are CESRs the Saviour of NPUs like Ez-Chip? « Iain’s Chips & Tech

Are CESRs the Saviour of NPUs like Ez-Chip? « Iain’s Chips & Tech — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:04:22 +0000

[...] These NPU’s provide the higher functionality specialty cards for the boxes. I wrote about the chip architecture of these boxes last week and noted that the “Carrier Specific” chips in this [...]

By: Weekly Blog Chat - iPhone | Telecom | Iliad BRCM | GOOG Voip Net Neutrality | pmarca blog « Iain’s Chips & Tech

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:19:09 +0000

[...] software) — TeleBusillis Chip Vendors finding ways to get more margin from their hardware. I wrote about this challenge a few weeks ago. Take a page out of the system vendors playbook - software gets more [...]

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:30:21 +0000

Excellent post… you describe the innards of the majority of equipment built 3-5 years from now.

The NPU guys still think NPU’s get deployed everywhere… reality is they get put off to the side for one handed functionality.

High end telecom equipment will have one on each card, but how many units is that when compared with the total number of Chassis?

Yet another example of the triumph of Ethernet.