Example of network router and # of LUTs utilized - Searching

[Jenn Lee]

Does anyone know where I can find an objective, third-party example of
a network router and it's related "typical" specifications (in
particular, the # of LUTs used for each function)? Ideally I would
like to find a high-performance, multi-function router and an
objective view that summarizes the following attributes/specifications
(and potentially more if possible):

---------------- TBD ROUTER --------------------
MODULE LUTS SPEED THROUGHPUT OTHER?
xxx
xxx


Many thanks!
Jenn

 

[Marc Randolph]

Jenn Lee wrote:

Does anyone know where I can find an objective, third-party example of
a network router and it's related "typical" specifications (in
particular, the # of LUTs used for each function)? Ideally I would
like to find a high-performance, multi-function router and an
objective view that summarizes the following attributes/specifications
(and potentially more if possible):

---------------- TBD ROUTER --------------------
MODULE LUTS SPEED THROUGHPUT OTHER?
xxx
xxx

Howdy Jenn,

I would be very surprised if you could find something like this, for
at least two big reasons:

1. Each high performance product, in my experience, has a unique set of
requirements - take for example your term "multi-function". What does
that really mean? How many ports do you want it to have? What speed
are they? How much blocking is allowed? How badly do you want to avoid
discards? How much can it cost? Can you share ingress/egress buffers
per port? Internal or external memory? The list is near endless.

2. Companies who design and develop such devices have no motivation or
desire to share their knowledge or ideas with their competitors.

Have fun,

Marc