Flow processing and the rise of commodity network hardware

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 20-26

  Greenhalgh, Adam ^a   Huici, Felipe ^b   Hoerdt, Mickael ^c   Papadimitriou, Panagiotis ^c   Handley, Mark ^a   Mathy, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Flow processing; Internet; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CPU POWER; FLOW PROCESSING; LOW COSTS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK FUNCTIONALITY; NETWORK PLATFORMS; PACKET INSPECTION; PC HARDWARE; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

ARCHITECTURE; INTERNET; INTRUSION DETECTION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

HARDWARE;

EID: 77951278164     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517480.1517484     Document Type: Article

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