A Fifty Gigabit Per Second IP Router
Craig Partridge, P.P. Carvey, Eric Burgess, Isidro Castiñeyra, Tim Clarke, Lancelot Graham, Melissa E. Hathaway, P. Herman, Al King, S. Kohlami, Tianqi Ma, J. Mcallen, T. Mendez, Walter Milliken, R. Osterlind, R. Pettyjohn, J. Rokosz, Jan Seeger, M. Sollins, S. Storch · 2001
Aggressive research on gigabit per second networks has led to dramatic improvements in network transmission speeds. One result of these improvements has been to put pressure on router technology to keep pace. This paper describes a router, nearly completed, which is more than fast enough to keep up with the latest transmission technologies. The router has a backplane speed of 50 Gb/s and can forward tens of millions of packets per second.