Design Article
Xelerated net processor integrates IP Infusion software
Robert Keenan
10/14/2002 12:04 PM EDT
BOSTON — Xelerated Inc. will integrate the control-plane software of IP Infusion into its X10 family of network processing units, the startup announced at the Next Generation Networks conference this week.
Xelerated is demonstrating a platform at the conference that integrates IP Infusion's ZebOS advanced routing suite with a clock-cycle accurate simulator of its X10 processor.
The suite includes IPv4 and IPv6 routing software as well as OSPF v2/v3, RIP v1/v2/ng, IS-IS, BGP4+, and MPLS software intended to help designers manage the routing information base, route conversion and distribution, forwarding information base and a standard control-line interface.
Since its start in mid-2000, Xelerated has focused on developing network processors and switch-fabrics for 10-Gbit/second networking designs such as OC-192 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The company's NPU family delivers a programmable pipeline developed around a proprietary architecture that operates on packets as they progress through a chip. The pipeline is interconnected with several on-chip engines that perform such tasks as classification, metering and statistics counting. The processor also sports four lookaside interfaces to link with external ternary content-addressable memory, SRAM, and IP co-processor devices.
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