Talk:Network processor

Merging from Network processors

Merge – Though the other article sucks, there might be some things in it that could be salvaged. -- Henriok 22:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. I couldn't find much to merge, so I'm being bold and redirecting it. Of course, you can always check the page history to see what was there before. YechielMan 05:53, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
• Not sure why we should still have that infobox there, after we've redirected the page here. I am getting rid of it. Pramod 12:06, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Improvement

Ok I think this article is way to general and needs to rewritten, so I think we should discuss a plan for rewriting it.

Here is the thing I think we should include

Network Processors are generally divided into the following type
Multimedia

• telephone (POTS)
• SONET cellphone ISP (succcessor of PDH) aka OC 3~OC 192
• wireless cellphone processor -ATMs

• LAN, WAN (integrated network processor, a microprocessor to be specific)
• embedded network processor

Products for citation suggestion would be

• Intel IP2XXX, IP4XX, IP12XX
• Bigfoot Networks, Killer NIC
• Integrated Communication Processor (by Freescale Semiconductor) still looking into it.
  • MPC8272 PowerQUICC ™ II Processor Family

I haven't look at cellphne processor & embedded processor for a really long time, so I made need some help. For network cellphone processors like Motorola, Nokia, LG and all the other comapies I never really look at their technical documentation before (because I wasn't interested). Also a lot of them weren't network processor, they are just features added on a regular microprocessor. Well my viewpiont of a microprocessor is that it has some parts of CPU function and miscnaellous other chips for flexibility (such as I/O, Host Controller Interface, accelerator, video decoder,...etc.)

So the reference is have to be very clearly. --Ramu50 (talk) 17:48, 15 July 2008 (UTC)