next NPU for MKT :-)
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:29 am
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Re: next NPU for MKT :-)
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:50 am
The technical specification looks very promising. There is also question about the price and implementation / development costs. I am looking forward to see the jump in mikrotik devices performance while the price will be constantly going down.
Re: next NPU for MKT :-)
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:15 pm
EZchip has acquired Tilera, so now Tilera customers(MKT) can have access to these NPUThe technical specification looks very promising. There is also question about the price and implementation / development costs. I am looking forward to see the jump in mikrotik devices performance while the price will be constantly going down.
Re: next NPU for MKT :-)
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:03 pm
That looks more like a chip for CRS, not CCR.
AFAIK Mikrotik is doing all the high level networking stuff in the Linux kernel. All those firewall/mangle/qos/whatever features need to be ported to run in the NPU. Whatever feature is not supported in the NPU needs to run on main CPU. Either you have a strong main CPU, so no need for a NPU or you will have a very slow router (see CRS).
It looks like with than NPU you can create a big Cisco L3 switch class machine (e.g. 65xx) in terms of performance, but all you can do is packet routing and filtering/NAT. Everything else that is outside of the ASIC/NPU and slow (if allowed at all).
AFAIK Mikrotik is doing all the high level networking stuff in the Linux kernel. All those firewall/mangle/qos/whatever features need to be ported to run in the NPU. Whatever feature is not supported in the NPU needs to run on main CPU. Either you have a strong main CPU, so no need for a NPU or you will have a very slow router (see CRS).
It looks like with than NPU you can create a big Cisco L3 switch class machine (e.g. 65xx) in terms of performance, but all you can do is packet routing and filtering/NAT. Everything else that is outside of the ASIC/NPU and slow (if allowed at all).