[c-nsp] New Catalyst 6k chassis

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Fri Jun 28 07:19:53 EDT 2013


On (2013-06-28 13:24 +0300), John Kougoulos wrote:

> "The Cisco 4451-X data plane uses an emulated Quantum Flow Processor
> (QFP) that delivers application-specific integrated circuit
> (ASIC)-like performance that does not degrade as services are
> added."

I was surprised by this. I would have guessed that producing their own QFP
in modern lithography process would be quite cheap. 
But that buying fast enough COTS CPU to emulate QFP is economic,
interesting. I wonder what CPU they are using, octeon?

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