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An Empirical Study on a Network Processor for a MPLS Router's Design and Implementation  

Kim, Eun-Ah ((주)라오넷)
Chun, Woo-Jik ((주)라오넷)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.28, no.4B, 2003 , pp. 339-350 More about this Journal
Abstract
The demands of network users emphasize the improvement and guarantee of service quality as well as the increment of bandwidth. As a result, high performance and additional new functions are important features to build network equipments, especially and edge router. For this structure, network processors with high performance and flexibility are considered as a main part of a packet forwarding module. In this paper, we design and edge MPLS router with a network processor, which supports high performance and multi-functionalities and examine its advantage and limitation.
Keywords
MPLS; Network Processor;
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