NEW YORK, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from the latest Heavy Reading survey on the multicore processor and NPU sector pinpoint key trends that are driving product purchases and identify the manufacturers considered by customers to be the industry's leading suppliers, as reported in the latest edition of Heavy Reading Components Insider (http://www.heavyreading.com/commchip), a paid research service of TechWeb's Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/).
TEMs Rate Multicore & Network Processor Suppliers analyzes the current and projected use of multicore and network processors by telecom equipment manufacturers, based on the results of an exclusive worldwide survey of engineers, designers, product managers, and sales/marketing personnel that work for telecom and networking system equipment manufacturers and suppliers. The report presents and analyzes full results from the survey, including market perception ratings for suppliers of communications processors, multicore processors, and NPUs.
For a complete list of companies covered in this report, please see: http://img.lightreading.com/cci/pdf/cci0410_companies.pdf.
"The responses to our survey make it clear that these devices are critical components in many types of networking equipment, from the access edge to the core of the network," notes Simon Stanley, research analyst for Heavy Reading Components Insider and author of the report. "To meet growing network bandwidth demands, service providers need networking systems with much greater packet processing capabilities that can handle up to 100-Gbit/s bandwidth. Multicore processors and NPUs are used in most high-performance networking systems, and telecom equipment manufacturers are developing systems with network processors that can handle up to 100 Gbit/s."
A key challenge for telecom equipment providers is developing software, Stanley says. "This area requires significant investment and innovation," he says. "Network processor vendors protect developers from the multicore complexity of their devices by providing comprehensive libraries and application-specific software. New solutions from operating system vendors are making techniques such as symmetric multiprocessing, asymmetric multiprocessing, and virtualization more readily available to developers, which is likely to dramatically increase the use of multicore processors for high-speed packet processing applications."
User ratings of suppliers revealed some sharp distinctions regarding market leadership perceptions, Stanley adds, noting that Broadcom, Cavium, EZChip, Freescale, and Intel earned the highest overall scores among the 73 professionals who participated in the survey, conducted in February 2010.
Key findings of TEMs Rate Multicore & Network Processor Suppliers include the following:
-- 100-Gbit/s capable NPUs are likely to see significant market success over the next two years. -- 50 percent of survey respondents will require greater than 40-Gbit/s packet processing performance over next 12 to 24 months. -- Multicore processors are supplanting NPUs for applications requiring 10 Gbit/s or less. -- Software remains a key challenge for equipment makers using multicore processors and NPUs. -- Integration is key for future multicore and network processors.
TEMs Rate Multicore & Network Processor Suppliers is available for $900. For more information, please visit: http://www.heavyreading.com/commchip. For more information about other Heavy Reading Insider services, please visit: http://www.heavyreading.com/research.
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