Talk:Network processor

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Merging from Network processors[edit]

Merge – Though the other article sucks, there might be some things in it that could be salvaged. -- Henriok 22:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I couldn't find much to merge, so I'm being bold and redirecting it. Of course, you can always check the page history to see what was there before. YechielMan 05:53, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure why we should still have that infobox there, after we've redirected the page here. I am getting rid of it. Pramod 12:06, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Improvement[edit]

Ok I think this article is way to general and needs to rewritten, so I think we should discuss a plan for rewriting it.

Here is the thing I think we should include

Network Processors are generally divided into the following type
Multimedia

telephone (POTS)
SONET cellphone ISP (succcessor of PDH) aka OC 3~OC 192
wireless cellphone processor -ATMs

LAN, WAN (integrated network processor, a microprocessor to be specific)
embedded network processor

Products for citation suggestion would be

Intel IP2XXX, IP4XX, IP12XX
Bigfoot Networks, Killer NIC
Integrated Communication Processor (by Freescale Semiconductor) still looking into it.
- MPC8272 PowerQUICC ™ II Processor Family

I haven't look at cellphne processor & embedded processor for a really long time, so I made need some help. For network cellphone processors like Motorola, Nokia, LG and all the other comapies I never really look at their technical documentation before (because I wasn't interested). Also a lot of them weren't network processor, they are just features added on a regular microprocessor. Well my viewpiont of a microprocessor is that it has some parts of CPU function and miscnaellous other chips for flexibility (such as I/O, Host Controller Interface, accelerator, video decoder,...etc.)

So the reference is have to be very clearly. --Ramu50 (talk) 17:48, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]