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<div>I don’t think you’re going to move those volumes with Intel X86 chips. For example, AT&T’s Open Compute Project whitebox architecture is based on Broadcom Jericho2 processors, with aggregate on-chip throughput of 9.6 Tbps, and which support 24 ports at
400 Gbps each. This is where AT&T’s 5G slicing is taking place.</div>
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<div><a href="https://about.att.com/story/2019/open_compute_project.html">https://about.att.com/story/2019/open_compute_project.html</a></div>
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<div>Intel has developed nothing like this, and has had to resort to acquisition of multi-chip solutions to get these speeds (e.g. its purchase of Barefoot Networks Tofino2 IP).</div>
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<div>The X86 architecture is too complex and carries too much non-network-related baggage to be a serious player in 5G slicing.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Aug 6, 2020, at 8:24 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.com> wrote:<br>
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<span>On 6/Aug/20 15:43, Shane Ronan wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Yes they are for 5G core.</span><br>
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<span>Right, but for legacy operators, or new entrants?</span><br>
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<span>If you know where we can find some info about deployment and</span><br>
<span>experiences, that would be very interesting to read.</span><br>
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<span>We've all been struggling to make Intel CPU's shift 10's, 40's and 100's</span><br>
<span>of Gbps of revenue traffic as a routing platform, so would like to know</span><br>
<span>how the operators are getting on with this.</span><br>
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<span>Mark.</span><br>
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