While early generations of network processors provided a nice performance boost for newer packet networks, they did little to enhance the performance of existing ATM infrastructure designs. This was ...

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a high-speed, broadband transmission capability technology. It transports various types of user traffic, including telephony (voice), data, and video signals. It ...

Firewalls are not new; but high-performance firewalls are. Historically, firewalls used software to examine every packet and then make the decision to forward or drop the packet. This made them slow.