COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS

摘要

Communication traffic processing architectures and methods are disclosed. Processing load on main Central Processing Units (CPUs) can be alleviated by offloading data processing tasks to separate hardware. The emergence of such technologies as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) technology and the convergence of Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), router gateways, and Digital Video Recorder (DVR) Set Top Boxes (STBs) place ever increasing demands on processing platforms.