October 22, 2004
Intel VoIP Network Processor Units (NPUs)
Intel's two families of XScale processors will aid in the speed of carriers' deployments of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The two units are named Intel IXP2325 and Intel IXP2350.
The network processor units (NPUs) introduced this week are expected to find their way to DSLAMs, wireless access switches and enterprise router line cards for traditional communications applications and for the emerging embedded networking segment.
The chipmaking giant is striking before the iron gets really hot. Jupiter Research forecasts that VoIP telephony services will grow to about 400,000 U.S. households by the end of 2004, and to 12.1 million households by 2009, which represent about 10 percent of all U.S. households.
Intel said its new IXP2325 and IXP2350 network chips can help combine data-plane and control-plane processing capabilities in a single chip and are the company's first network processors built on 90 nanometer process technology.
Read more: Intel Tweaks Chips for VoIP Revolution
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