Enabling the New Intelligent Edge

With today’s massive increase in data and the growing complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), the amount of intelligence and functionality residing at the edge of the network outnumbers any other part of the network. With network functions moving from routers to virtual and third-party providers, new, edge platforms need the intelligence to determine which users and applications are most effectively delivered locally and which are less latency dependent.

As the need to process all of that intelligence continues to increase, network processors are being tasked with delivering significantly higher performance levels without increasing power or size.

Companies in the industry gathered this week to discuss these challenges at the Linley Tech Processor Conference.  Rick Merritt summarizes several announcements at the show in his article, IoT Core, SoCs Debut, which includes highlights on its new ARM-based 64-bit network processor.

Announced on Tuesday, this new QorIQ LS1043A quad-core processor is purpose-built for power-constrained networking applications.  In short, the processor helps edge network equipment manufacturers easily scale power and performance to meet these changing needs of the world’s highly virtualized, software-defined networks.

Contributed by NXP Staff