What to do with your FPGA Enabled Network Card

Here's what you can do with your new shiny 10GE network card with onboard FPGA:

• Port Forwarding: this allows you to copy an incoming data stream to another port so that you can have one server for execution only and one for data persistence.

• Data Filtering: transform and redirect data based at 10GE speed. Reformat XML to binary e.g

• Port Forwarding to Multicast: forward a filtered or unfiltered data stream as a multicast stream

• BGP/IGMP Routing: save a fortune on hardware and a network stack traversal too!

• Port Forwarding to Multicast by topic: forward a filtered or unfiltered data stream as a multicast stream by topic

• Port Failover: If your server fails, the feed data can automatically be transferred to another port electrically.

• Timestamping of packets: at +-5 nanosecond resolution.

• Object Serialisation: data formatted to binary - no parsing.

• Data hashing: Listening to the A and the B? implement a "group feed" on the card

• QOS marking: Packets can be marked with an appropriate quality of service to be expedited by the network.