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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2002
Frederick Gruner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Hathaway, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramesh Panwar, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Elango Ganesan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nazar Zaidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Frederick Gruner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Hathaway, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramesh Panwar, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Elango Ganesan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nazar Zaidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A compute engine includes a central processing unit coupled to a coprocessor. The coprocessor includes a media access controller engine and a data transfer engine. The media access controller engine couples the compute engine to a communications network. The data transfer engine couples the media access controller engine to a set of cache memory. In further embodiments, a compute engine includes two media access controller engines. A reception media access controller engine receives data from the communications network. A transmission media access controller engine transmits data to the communications network. The compute engine also includes two data transfer engines. A streaming output engine stores network data from the reception media access controller engine in cache memory. A streaming input engine transfers data from cache memory to the transmission media access controller engine. In one implementation, the compute engine performs different network services, including but not limited to: 1) virtual private networking; 2) secure sockets layer processing; 3) web caching; 4) hypertext mark-up language compression; 5) virus checking; 6) firewall support; and 7) web switching.