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To: pat pasquale who wrote (6414)9/27/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: James Connolly  Read Replies (2) of 10309
 
Pat,

According to the article ASIC's are better for the real high end stuff. An ASIC chip will always be faster than an network processor. However this still leaves plenty of market share available for network processor based routers.

However, there is one possibility. Lets say for the sake of argument that a network processor is only 33% as fast as an ASIC but only 10% of the cost. It might be possible to run 3 network processors or 3 NP based routers in parallel, get the same speed as an ASIC but for only 30% (3x10%) of the cost.

I do not know enough about the inner workings of routers to know if this is a possibility or not. Perhaps others on the thread can comment.

Regards
JC.

PS. The figures mentioned above are for argument sake only. I have no idea as to the relative speeds or costs.
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