Revealing the Necessary Conditions to Achieve 80Gbps High-Speed PC Router
Yasuhiro Ohara, Yudai Yamagishi, Satoshi Sakai, Abhik Datta Banik, Shin Miyakawa · 2015
The core networking research community is witnessing a trend that many researchers attempt, and some achieve, a high speed packet processing rate using software-based approach. Yet, the extent of performance that can be obtained by deploying only Personal Computers (PCs), or Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) devices, remains as an open-ended question. This is because 1) industrial achievements often involve custom hardware developments that are not counted as COTS devices, and their technical details are not revealed, and 2) research papers do not focus on the goal to answer the question of the best performance achievable using only COTS devices.