This white paper is intended to help designers understand the technical capabilities of the unique SPI4-2 standard: its role in the converged communications environment, and its ability to optimize the development of new multi-system solutions.
This paper details the importance of Ethernet-based products in Carrier Class applications, defines Carrier Class Ethernet, summarizes the associated market dynamics (including LAN/WAN convergence) and presents application examples of Carrier Class Ethernet systems.
Intel is helping the industry take Ethernet to greater speeds and performance in the LAN, as well as extend Ethernet into new market segments including wireless, storage and metro area networking. This paper provides information on these trends, why they are happening and, most important, how to benefit from these transitions as the demand for faster and more efficient network infrastructure increases.
This paper provides an overview of the key features and benefits of Embedded Intel® Architecture and Intel XScale® technology-based processors for industrial control and automation applications.
In this white paper, Intel presents a performance assessment of the Intel® IXP2350 network processor for a variety of common access and edge applications. In the application examples discussed, packets are processed in microblocks and executed across the microengines within the IXP2350 network processor, processing a comprehensive set of functions for a variety of data rates and communications protocols.
This white paper describes the interconnection between the Intel® IXP2400 network processor and the Vitesse GigaStream* Switch Fabric, and their interoperability through the CSIX-L1 interface to provide a complete network processor and switch fabric solution for high-performance communication systems.
This white paper addresses preventing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using programmable NPUs. Denial of Service attacks represent an ever increasing, ever changing threat to productivity and profitability on the Internet. The scope and severity of these attacks is only limited by the imagination of their creators. To cope with these threats, a highly distributed and flexible solution must be deployed. Processing power and programmable silicon in the network represents the foundation for deploying such a solution.
This white paper describes Intel's new network processor families, which enable network equipment vendors to offer their customers the best combination of customizable and upgradeable services with wire-speed performance.
As a leading innovator in network processing and Ethernet connectivity, Intel is helping to drive the evolution of next-generation IP (Internet Protocol)-based network services in applications from the customer premises (CPE) to the network core.
This white paper describes the key technical problems for network processing at 10 Gbps and higher line rates, and recommends an architecture level solution. In addition, it highlights the important network processor technologies that enable effective implementations of this architecture level solution.
This paper highlights the performance of the Intel® IXP2400 network processor for two key applications. It shows that the IXP2400 can perform (1) routing with QoS and (2) ATM Segmentation and Reassembly (SARing) with traffic management at OC-48 performance level while leaving headroom for meaningful customer applications to be executed.
This paper examines the challenges facing equipment providers, carriers, and the enterprise in the CPE segment. In the context of this paper, the CPE can reside in the residence, the small office/home office (SOHO), or the branch office in a small to medium enterprise (SME).
This paper provides an overview of the key features and benefits of Embedded Intel® Architecture and Intel XScale® technology-based processors for industrial control and automation applications.
This paper provides a consolidated overview of the main features and benefits of Intel XScale technology and includes examples of its implementation both as a core I/O processor component in multi-chip platform designs and as an integrated single-chip I/O processing solution for networked storage applications.
The purpose of this white paper is to provide the reader with some software design considerations when developing host driver software using the Intel® 31244 PCI-X to serial ATA controller (31244). This includes a potential software architecture for the 31244. The reference OS within this white paper is Linux* 2.4.18.
By using high availability server clustering in storage environments, organizations can intelligently combine servers and RAID arrays with the purpose of simultaneously increasing the security and the computing power of the whole system.
Zero channel RAID (ZCR) or modular RAID on motherboard (MROMB) is becoming an attractive choice for other equipment manufacturers (OEMs) looking to implement cost-effective hardware RAID solutions in high-density servers.
This white paper outlines the benefits and cost effectiveness of the N+N architecture, and describes the system, environment and solutions now available to meet the power requirements of today's central office (CO) environment. Using standards-based modular building blocks, the Intel® NetStructure™ ZT 5088 12U General Purpose Packet Switched Platform increases the high availability of the CO environment while accommodating increased computing performance and scalability needs of OEM telecom equipment manufacturers.
A white paper/product brief which details how Intel is providing hardware, software and services to address availability and reliability issues in the emerging generations of multi-service networks.
In this visionary paper, Intel predicts that billions of people will gain high-speed Internet access – wirelessly – within the next decade. The premise for this vision is clear: all high-speed wireless technologies will coexist, working in tandem to meet service provider and customer needs for truly mobile computing and communications across the globe.
Intel® 90nm Communications Technology
This white paper examines the acceleration of convergence in computing and communications made possible by the Intel® 90nm process — as well as the new, specialized features optimized by Intel specifically for integrated, high-performance communications functions on chip.
This article examines the capabilities of the proposed Advanced Switching specification for the PCI Express architecture (AS for PCI-Ex) against requirements of many interconnect technologies.
These white papers provide information about modular communications platforms and associated technologies, such as AdvancedTCA*, Advanced Switching and PCI Express*, and High Availability.
This paper investigates SONET/SDH–based Layer 1 and 2 technologies used worldwide that bridge the gap between the present and the future, in a flexible and cost effective manner, namely PoS, EoS via Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), Link Access Procedure-SDH (LAPS), Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), MPLS, RPR, (ATM over SONET/SDH , SAN, and Virtual Concatenation.
