Introduction to NCS5500 Packet Buffering

Introduction to NCS5500 Packet Buffering

We start a series of blog posts and videos on the NCS 5500 QoS.

Before attacking the QoS itself, it's important to refresh memories on some key concepts, like Ingress-buffering and Virtual Output Queues architectures.

Blog post will follow soon(ish).

#NCS5500 #packet #buffer #buffering #iosxr #xr #voq

Vasiliy Taran

SRE, Market Data at Devexperts

5y

Broadcom off the shelf network engines repacked again? ;)

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Micah Bartell

Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering, Technology Strategy and Business Operations

5y

How does the process of request/accept for transmission on a per packet basis impact latency at high packet rates through the device? The control plane between ingress and egress is reminiscent of SPX flow control...

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Aun Ali,

Group Head Business at Bank Al Habib Limited

5y

😀

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Abbas Dadabhoy

Retired from Broadcom. Independent commentator. My comments and posts represent my personal views.

5y

Nice to see Broadcom DNX device’s key feature being explained. Intelligent buffering scheme using virtualized queues.

just like your all other work, this blog too is Precise, perfect, well detailed, and well explained!  Keep these coming!

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