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They are not just designed for networking, but the bulk of their customers are: A10, F5, Sonicwall, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks (http://www.cavium.com/wi
by windexh8er 12y ago
They are not just designed for networking, but the bulk of their customers are: A10, F5, Sonicwall, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks (http://www.cavium.com/winning_products.html http://www.cavium.com/winning_products.html)
"...haven't really made a lot of sense..." - You are completely wrong here. Most data center grade networking equipment does not run Xeon and the products that do are generally significantly less performant. Especially when it comes to security or packet inspection.
- kjs3 12y agoIf you narrow the statement down to "the highest performance network gear don't use Xeons", I suppose you get to be right. Almost all of my data-center security and packet inspection devices have a Xeon or two in them. The Cisco ASAs, Fireeye APT probes, Imperva WAFs, F5 load balancers, Sourcefire IDS. A couple of them also have packet processing support hardware (Endace cards, mostly), but that's mostly for taking the packet processing off the Xeons and letting them do just the inspection. But hey, we're only doing a couple of gig sustained, so we aren't the cool kids.