IDT Introduces Innovative Packet Processing Solution For Delivery Of Advanced Network Applications

The combined Search and Route Accelerator solution can be tailored to IDT customers’ specific classification and forwarding requirements, enabling industry-leading performance with the lowest power per entry searched. Equipment providers that implemented solutions with IDT Search Accelerators can easily implement the Route Accelerator to preserve their hardware and software investments by utilizing the pin and software compatibility between the two devices. In addition, customers that currently use external memory for their forwarding tables can now realize over a 40 percent reduction in pin count on the packet processor interface by consolidating all of their policy and forwarding search requirements onto the same sub-system.

The Route Accelerator addresses a wide range of applications such as IPv4/IPv6 unicast and multicast forwarding, flow-based routing, L2/L3 virtual private networks (VPNs), and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS), while providing customers the maximum level of storage efficiency through support of application-optimized key sizes. Using an innovative algorithmic architecture combined with its integrated table management engine (TME), the device significantly simplifies table management beyond previously available solutions whilst offering very high performance and reducing the cost and power of the overall system.

The Route Accelerator addresses strict system-level availability and uptime requirements from leading service providers by offering enhanced error detection and correction (ECC) both background ECC scan and on-the-fly (OTF) error detection and correction during a search function are offered, making it the most reliable search solution in the market capable of supporting “six-nines” system reliability.

The Route Accelerator is supported by a highly-integrated software package and evaluation system which reduces implementation costs, shortens time to market, and protects the end-user’s software investment.

The IDT Search Accelerator family is the first in the industry to deliver one billion searches per second performance, integrated ECC, and an IPv6-optimized 80-bit DDR interface.