Expanding NetLogic Microsystems’ NL10k and NL11k families of knowledge-based processors, the NL82048 promises to double IPv6 processing capabilities for next-generation switches and routers. The device claims a number of innovations, i.e., it’s the first device to support as many as 512,000 IPv6 or 2 million IPv4 addresses. It also integrates 256 knowledge-based processing engines and supports a daisy-chain clustering scheme that allows quadrupling of the number of IPv6 addresses without impacting line rate. Other features include support for more than a million quality-of-service or access-control-list entries and clock switching schemes that achieve an aggregate interface bandwidth of 80 Gbits/s and can perform up to 1.2 billion decisions per second.

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