Today when carriers want to charge for mobile access to cloud services they need to add a network processing unit (NPU) or for super-high-throughput a specialized field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Now, however, Vitesse Semiconductor claims it has the world's first smart switch silicon for mobile access to cloud-services. Integrated into the Ethernet switching layer, Vitesse's Serval-2 Carrier Ethernet Switch Engine provides a cheaper more efficient hardware solution: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
Vitesse Service Aware Architecture (ViSAA) is the only Ethernet switch smart enough to be aware of what services a user is accessing so that carriers can directly track mobile access and cloud-based usage for hierarchical quality of service (H-QoS) operations, administration management (OAM) including physical layer (PHY).Further Reading
