Cluster-Based Scalable & Programmable Routers

The Internet uses a vast network of closed specialized hardware-based routers to send information in "packets" nearly instantaneously. As new services such as video and mobile computing become the norm, there is a growing need to move from simply moving packets as fast as possible to a more programmable and extensible routing infrastructure that can be customized and adapted quickly. RouteBricks is an Intel Research Berkeley Labs project to evaluate the packet processing capability of emerging multi-core servers and exploring novel approaches to clustering these servers to build routers that are incrementally scalable and yet fully programmable.

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