Next generation 200-Gigabit network processor now in production
The NP-5 has secured design wins among leading carrier router vendors as well as other network equipment vendors and provides a natural scale-up path for customers that use the company’s leading NP-4 100-Gigabit processor. The NP-5 sells at roughly a 50% higher ASP (average selling price) and enables vendors to double and triple the port density of their line cards. With the NP-5, customers can now deliver higher port-density line cards with multiple 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit ports, while continuing their offering of NP-4 based line cards for 10-Gigabit ports.
"The largest of EZchip’s router vendor customers are now providing NP-5 based line cards to their customers, and the NP-5’s exceptional performance and integration has enabled our Tier-1 customers to secure new large data-center customers which we believe should result in a significant increase in NP-5 business," said Eli Fruchter, CEO of EZchip Semiconductor.
"Furthermore with the recent completion of the Tilera acquisition, we are well underway in developing a radical new class of multi-core processors that will bring significant new opportunities with the advent of NFV and SDN and in evolving carrier, cloud and data-center networks."
The NP-5 drives line cards and appliances that feature multiple 100 and 40-Gigabit ports as well as numerous 10-Gigabit ports. Through its versatility and rich feature set, the NP-5 serves a wide variety of carrier and data center applications.
NP-5 highlights include:
- 200-Gigabit programmable packet processing;
- Integrated 200-Gigabit hierarchical traffic management;
- Ethernet ports with integrated MACs supporting 48×10-Gigabit, 12 x 40-Gigabit, 4×100-Gigabit interfaces or combinations thereof;
- Enhanced memory management for lookup tables, packet buffering and statistics; all using commodity DDR3 devices for minimized cost and power;
- 10GBase-KR links for direct connection to the system’s backplane;
- Power management for minimizing line card and system power dissipation;
- On-chip control CPU for host CPU offload;
- Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) processing offload;
- Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE1588v2 offload for Circuit Emulation Services; and
- IP reassembly for advanced packet processing offload.
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