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Layer 4-7 Content-Aware Networking Devices
Overview This paper gives result after researching and reviewing all various approaches to bringing intelligence to Layers 4-7 in quest to achieve goals of distinguishing one application from another; assigning each the requisite resources; and keeping tabs on who should be charged how much for services rendered, Application Switching pulls ahead of the other solutions. With its silicon-based solution, Application Switching has the potential to revolutionize the service provider and enterprise networking marketplaces. There’s a trend going on here, and we’ve seen it before. When switching technology evolved from relying entirely on protocol independent bridges to hardware-based Layer 2 switches, which move to silicon yielded tremendous gains in performance, reductions in price, and the ability to implement new features that were too processor-intensive for practical use on a processor based system.
| Publisher | Extreme Networks | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | January 2002 | Downloads | 24 |
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