You can implement the whole OSI stack in hardware, thereby drastically improving performance. It's probably overkill for a webserver but there are other applica

You can implement the whole OSI stack in hardware, thereby drastically improving performance. It's probably overkill for a webserver but there are other applications where reducing latency is highly desirable: http://web.stanford.edu/~hlitz/papers/hft_fpga.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/~hlitz/papers/hft_fpga.pdf