RE: [nsp] What is VXR

From: Alex Rubenstein (alex@nac.net)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 19:10:08 EST


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, KF wrote:

> VXR have TDM between PCI busses... there is big significant when
> bandwidth hungry PA's want to switch packets over this buses.
>
> With VXR you are able to use NSE1 and belong to happier group who
> needs to move huge amount of date closer to wire speed

the NSE-1, in a service provider environment, is identical to a NPE-300.
The only offloading today to the NSE is PXF (questionable ROI on CPU) and
NAT (any service providers running this in the core?).

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