Anatomy of an IP RouterVahid TabatabaeeFall 2007.pptVIP

Anatomy of an IP Router Vahid Tabatabaee Fall 2007 ;References;Basic IP Router Components;Basic Functions of a Router ;Packet Forwarding;First Generation of Routers;Problems with first generation routers;The routing table lookup speed can not be improved if we use traditional memories. The conventional bus structure for the interconnection is very inefficient. Every packet has to pass the bus at least twice. The whole packet (not just the header) is transferred. ;How fast a router should be? ;What is the solution;Modern Switch Based Architecture;Functional Blocks in a Modern Switches;Line cards in Modern Switches;Data Path Diagram;Data Path Functions;Switch Card to Line Card Connection;How many serdes do we need?;Speedup ;Redundancy;Example;Example;Traces Per Serdes;A sample Router (Cisco CRS-1);;Physical layer Interface Module;Multishelf Systems;How to handle packet processing?;Off-the-shelf CPU Systems;Memory Bottleneck;Sup-optimal Instruction Set ;Packet processing with ASIC ;ASIC development is costly;So is there a middle ground solution?;Network Processors value proposition;Packet Processing Stages;Packet Processing Stages;Deep Packet Processing;Packet Processing Implementation issues;How do network processors do this?;Network Processor Categories;The other side argument