https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-exos-switch/i-m-curious-about-the-role-of-asic-in-the-extreme-xos-series/m-p/80637#M19983 Hello<BR /> <BR /> <OL> <LI>I'm curious about the role of Asic in the Extreme XOS series. </LI><LI>And can I check the asics table? </LI><LI>And finally, can we see the images with physical traffic flow? </LI></OL> Thank you. Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:22:27 GMT Yeoung 2019-08-26T18:22:27Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-exos-switch/i-m-curious-about-the-role-of-asic-in-the-extreme-xos-series/m-p/80637#M19983 Hello<BR /> <BR /> <OL> <LI>I'm curious about the role of Asic in the Extreme XOS series. </LI><LI>And can I check the asics table? </LI><LI>And finally, can we see the images with physical traffic flow? </LI></OL> Thank you. Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:22:27 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-exos-switch/i-m-curious-about-the-role-of-asic-in-the-extreme-xos-series/m-p/80637#M19983 Yeoung 2019-08-26T18:22:27Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-exos-switch/i-m-curious-about-the-role-of-asic-in-the-extreme-xos-series/m-p/80638#M19984 What exactly do you want to know? In any case I'd believe those are internals noone will give you.<BR /> <BR /> Typically, every network device, be it a switch, router, firewall, .... contains a CPU and a network processor (the "ASIC"). Packet forwarding tasks are offloaded to the ASIC since it is a special purpose processor capable of doing that very fast, once it knows what to do (gets its instructions from the CPU).<BR /> <BR /> That's mostly all there is to know unless you'd like to build switches from scratch. In which case I guess Extreme won't help you ? Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:38:04 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-exos-switch/i-m-curious-about-the-role-of-asic-in-the-extreme-xos-series/m-p/80638#M19984 jeronimo 2019-08-26T20:38:04Z