Packet processing needs processing
power. That’s what GE Fanuc delivers
with its WANic 5434 Packet Processor (see
the figure). The PCI Express-based board
can handle wire speeds up to 4 Gbits/s. It
also can handle packet layers
2 through 7, making complex security processing
applications.
The WANic
5434 is based on
Cavium’s 500-MHz
CN5434-NSP Octeon
chip, which has six cores. The board has interface plus 1 Gbyte of DDR2 VLP mini-
RDIMM modules. The quad front-panel
interfaces may be 1000BaseT or 1000Base-
SX fiber transceivers. Support for Debian
Linux is included, and support
operating systems
available.
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