Network Processors

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Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduler, 279

Early Packet Discard (EPD), 272

Early Selective Packet Discard (ESPD), 273

Edge devices, 24

Egress Back DMA (EBDMA), 415, 426

Egress Front DMA (EFDMA), 416, 426

Egress processing, 184, 188

EZchip, 415–416

tasks, 188

Egress Transmit Frame Descriptor Queue (ETFD_Q), 429

Elastic Round-Robin algorithm, 274

Embedded processors, 335

Encryption, 237–238

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), 169

Entry-level NPs, 8, 288

Equal Cost Multiple Path (ECMP), 132

Error Correcting Code (ECC), 319

Error detection, 189–191

algorithms, 189

CRC, 189–190

IP checksum, 190–191

Ethernet, 3, 15, 39–58. See also Data networks

architectural positioning, 40

bandwidths, 3–4

bridging, 49–52

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