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Friday, October 25, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/24/021024hnnetpower.xml?s=IDGNS Analysis: Looking for more network processing power Stephen Lawson and Ashlee Vance Fatter network pips and the need for smarter traffic treatment are forcing server vendors and users to make hard decisions about where to get more network processing power. When data comes into a server or is sent out to a network, it needs to be processed, for example by being pulled out of packets or placed into packets. Traditionally, that processing has been done on the server's CPU, but as typical network interfaces have gone from 100Mbps to 1Gbps and begun heading toward 10Gbps, the bottleneck between server and network in some cases has shifted from the interface to the CPU....
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