To understand the life of a packet in an ACX7000 Series router, you first need to understand the idea behind Virtual Output Queues. Introduction Many Network Processing Unit (NPU) architectures are available on the market today. They propose different packet buffering approaches,...
First article “Behind The Scene” on the building of the ACX7000 Series, starting with the heart of the router: the Packet Forwarding Engine. Introduction With the introduction of the ACX7100 routers (-32C and -48L), we initiated the integration of Broadcom Jericho2 Network Processing Unit ...