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Routing lookups in hardware at memory access speeds

Gupta et al., 1998

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Gupta P
Lin S
McKeown N
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Proceedings. IEEE INFOCOM'98, the Conference on Computer Communications. Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Gateway to the 21st Century (Cat. No. 98

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The increased bandwidth in the Internet puts great demands on network routers; for example, to route minimum sized Gigabit Ethernet packets, an IP router must process about 1.5/spl times/10/sup 6/packets per second per port. Using the" rule-of-thumb" that it takes …
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