At the risk of boring everyone, wanted to point out a PDF file on the web http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/LSI_PB_2pg_Axxia_C_LR.pdf describing a new communication processor we announced this week. This is the SoC (System on a Chip) we have been working on for the past couple of years. Specifically, my team's role is on the Security Engine part developing various SW components, verifying that it works as intended on the hardware and software simulation models, etc. Interestingly, in an article I published in 2005 posted at http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173600898, I wrote that the security related features should be integrated inside the communication processor. Though it was not an epiphany but only a logical thought, I am glad to see that idea being realized via this processor now. :-)
This ACP (Axxia Communication Processor) device could be used as the brain inside boxes that handle large volumes of traffic (5 to 20 Gigabits per second) on the network. Typical example could be next generation mobile phone network (3G/4G) that can deliver broadband connectivity to cell phones allowing people to watch video, surf the internet, etc. using their smartphones. It can inspect the traffic for malicious packets, handle encryption/decryption, prioritize different types of traffic crisscrossing the network, perform routing and so forth. As I was saying about Google Goggles a while back, the amount of technology, ideas, algorithms, blood and sweat that goes into these inventions/devices are mind boggling. In previous decades such technologies used to appear as unnecessary luxury rich societies indulge in. But how mobile phones have been transforming lives in every socioeconomic strata allover the world has been very well documented in the last few years. In a planet with 6+ billion people, projections say that 5 billion phones will be in use within the next few years. According to a study that came out last year, adding 10 mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country boosts GDP growth per person by 0.8 percent. Check out http://mmd4d.org/2009/10/04/the-economist-mobile-marvels/ if you can. Even after applying normalization required to discount the hype, I think we can agree that improved network access does contribute to improved quality of life all around the world. ACP hopefully will do its part to drive this growth.
Some analysts have written positively about this processor on their blogs comparing it to competing devices: http://blog. linleygroup. com/2010/ 02/lsi-announces -multicore- network.html. If you are interested, you can Google "Axxia Communication Processor" to dig up lot more information to read. Now got to see how well we sell this stuff. :-)
-sundar.
This ACP (Axxia Communication Processor) device could be used as the brain inside boxes that handle large volumes of traffic (5 to 20 Gigabits per second) on the network. Typical example could be next generation mobile phone network (3G/4G) that can deliver broadband connectivity to cell phones allowing people to watch video, surf the internet, etc. using their smartphones. It can inspect the traffic for malicious packets, handle encryption/decryption, prioritize different types of traffic crisscrossing the network, perform routing and so forth. As I was saying about Google Goggles a while back, the amount of technology, ideas, algorithms, blood and sweat that goes into these inventions/devices are mind boggling. In previous decades such technologies used to appear as unnecessary luxury rich societies indulge in. But how mobile phones have been transforming lives in every socioeconomic strata allover the world has been very well documented in the last few years. In a planet with 6+ billion people, projections say that 5 billion phones will be in use within the next few years. According to a study that came out last year, adding 10 mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country boosts GDP growth per person by 0.8 percent. Check out http://mmd4d.org/2009/10/04/the-economist-mobile-marvels/ if you can. Even after applying normalization required to discount the hype, I think we can agree that improved network access does contribute to improved quality of life all around the world. ACP hopefully will do its part to drive this growth.
Some analysts have written positively about this processor on their blogs comparing it to competing devices: http://blog. linleygroup. com/2010/ 02/lsi-announces -multicore- network.html. If you are interested, you can Google "Axxia Communication Processor" to dig up lot more information to read. Now got to see how well we sell this stuff. :-)
-sundar.
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