The architecture of a Gb/s multimedia protocol adapter

  • Authors:
  • Erich Rütsche

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

In this paper a new multiprocessor--based communication adapter is presented. The adapter architecture supports isochronous multimedia traffic and asynchronous data traffic by handling them separately. The adapter architecture and its components are explained and the protocol processing performance for TCP/IP and for ST-II is evaluated. The architecture supports the processing of ST-II at the network speed of 622 Mb/s. The calculated performance for TCP/IP is more than 30000 segments/sec. The architecture can be extended to protocol processing at one Gb/s.