A new generation of programmable network processors coming out this year may have a better shot than previous chips at getting into switches and routers, allowing vendors — as well as service ...

Advancements in LAN silicon continue, as Xelerated has started to ship a network processor capable of running 10 Gigabit Ethernet links. The fabless semiconductor company showed the X10q-e processor ...

Cisco is announcing a 40-core network processor Monday that seems designed to upgrade its CRS-1 core router, though the company isn’t saying yet. Cisco won’t actually reveal what it plans to do with ...

EZchip Technologies a fabless semiconductor company providing Ethernet network processors has announced that it has begun shipping samples of its NP-3, 30-Gigabit network processor, to customers. The ...

Yokneam, Israel, December 2, 2008 — EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:EZCH, formerly LanOptics Ltd.), a fabless semiconductor company providing Ethernet network processors, today announced that it is ...

Like far too many things in this world, enterprise networking seems to bounce between two extremes. One year, hardware acceleration is all the rage. The next, a software-only approach seeks to ...

As the Internet connections to local-area networks via edge devices have grown, the architecture of the overall system has become fragmented and difficult to manage. Other problems also have emerged, ...

Juniper Networks on Thursday unveiled an armada of new gear, software and chips that it hopes will ding Cisco Systems while positioning the company well in the next generation data center. The ...

Cisco Systems has agreed to buy SpansLogic, a privately held designer of network processing chips based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum. It plans to embed chips developed by ...