> I would have thought they have custom ASICs in their products That's a very 2001 way of product design - the vast vast majority of networking hardware (even

> I would have thought they have custom ASICs in their products That's a very 2001 way of product design - the vast vast majority of networking hardware (even the super expensive and complicated security stuff) uses off the shelf chips from Cavium (for CPU), Xilinx (FPGA), etc. packaged up in a manner optimized for it's purpose. Almost nobody is spinning custom ASICs for network hardware these days - the cost/benefit over an FPGA just isn't there.