Talk:Network processor

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Ramu50 in topic Improvement

Merging from Network processors

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

Improvement

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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)Reply