BANGALORE, INDIA: The trend of increasing convergence over network and consequent requirement of larger bandwidth pose new challenges to the networking world in India.

For the kind of bandwidth required and services provided by SPs at present, single core processor architectures are sufficient. But when more bandwidth oriented services will be provided, more processor capacity with more computing power is required to provide high-end services with data intensive applications.

Creating larger bandwidth of network to be able to provide triple play services will require a huge amount of processing to be done. Industry sources say that in the next three years single-core architectures will be running out of steam or hitting the power ceiling, pushing the network operators toward dual core to 8-core multi-core processors depending upon the amount of data required to be processed. So, multi-core architectures are naturally becoming the mainstream solution in the networking segment too to scale processor performance.

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