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- From: earlf@trappist.net.com (Earl Ferguson Adv Dev)
- Subject: Application Specific Switching Processors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.091232.13657@unet.net.com>
- Keywords: atm, frame relay, switches
- Sender: Earl Ferguson
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- Organization: Network Equipment Technologies
- References: <1992Dec17.211811.6553@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1992Dec24.045318.18879@unet.net.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:12:32 GMT
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- I believe that it could be appropriate for switches (ATM or Frame Relay)
- to be developed that contain both a high performance general purpose
- switch and one or more applications specific switching processors
- (ASSP). The Class of Service negotiated at VC setup could then include
- a request that any switch with the identified ASSP available, switch
- cells or frames for the VC to their attached ASSP before forwarding. If
- done carefully, this should give the ability to enhance the processing
- capability of a switch with the ASSPs needed for data base query,
- transaction updates, tree structured searches, etc.
-
- I am no expert in this arena, but it just makes more sense to me to
- remove the specifics of an individual application's networking and
- distributed processing needs from direct responsibility of the switch or
- other general networking layers. On the other hand, it is also desirable
- to make this type of distributed application efficient by providing a
- means of implementing specific applications functions "close" to the
- switching function.
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- Earl Ferguson
- earlf@net.com
- My personal opinions and NOT those of my employer.
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