A Network Processor-Based, Content-Aware Switch
Li Zhao, Yan Luo, Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan, Ravishankar K. Iyer · IEEE Micro · 2006
A content-aware switch can optimize cluster-based server architectures by examining requests and distributing them to servers on the basis of application-level information. A network-processor-based switch can reduce HTTP processing latency and improve packet throughput.