Statistics engine

Integrated Device Technology has rolled out what it claims is the industry’s first off-the-shelf statistics engine.

Targeting edge router, broadband access equipment and multi-service provisioning platforms, the IDT statistics engine features a Network Processor Forum (NPF) Look Aside (LA-1) interface and offloads processor elements such as NPUs, FPGAs and ASICs of the critical function of statistics tracking.

“Customers looking to design a 10G (OC-192) edge/access/metro router, coupled with a current generation packet processor, will experience difficulty achieving line rates when supporting thousands of customer flows. This equipment requires differentiated services, and maintaining quality of service and service-level agreements at line rates with a single processor design is nearly impossible.

By preventing the processor element from stalling on the restrictive external bus transactions, the IDT statistics engine will play a critical role in helping customers overcome system-performance challenges,” said Michael Miller, IDT chief technology officer and vice president of the Systems Technology Group.