Architecture of fast IP forwarding engine in gigabit ethernet system
Han C. Do, Hyeong Ho Lee, Kyoon Hyun Cha · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1999
In recent years, Internet traffic has been increased rapidly as a result of the Internet which accommodates multimedia traffic such as IP telephony and video conference. Gigabit routing technology is one possible approach to handle such internet traffic. This paper presents an efficient IP forwarding architecture adequate for Gigabit Ethernet switching system. The presented IP forwarding architecture is based upon distributed and pipelined process, which can effectively facilitate searching, editing, traffic classification, forwarding, and traffic management in parallel. Additionally, it can also process packets at full wire-speed in the ASIC level.