LSI Provides Innovative Technology

Editor’s Note: This article refers to a video interview shot in San Jose, Calif., as part of TMCnet’s “On the Road” video series. To view the entire library of videos from Road Shows and other industry shows, as well as product demos and interviews in our in-house studio, visit the TMCnet Videos home page.

As part of TMCnet’s “On the Road” video series, TMC’s CEO Rich Tehrani (News - Alert) interviewed Manish Muthal, director of strategic planning, Networking Components Division, LSI., a provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies.

LSI possesses core competency for delivering differentiated networking solutions. The chip company delivers carrier-grade solutions for service providers, the enterprise, and small/medium-sized businesses. Using LSI silicon chips, software, and system expertise, their networking solutions are designed for use in various types of equipment, including carrier-managed home, small office, home office, small/medium business services gateways, as well as multiservice wireline and wireless access platforms.

“The networking business is one of our key businesses going forward,” Muthal said during the interview.

Among its many customers are such tech giants as Hewlett-Packard and Cisco (News - Alert).

Recently, a need grew to add more intelligence, more security and more control into the network.

“As we see network traffic grow, as we see storage traffic grow, unless you have intelligence, control and security at the right places within the service provider and within the enterprise network you will not be able to keep up with the demand,” Muthal said.

Muthal said that a basic question that faced LSI is “How do you fundamentally redesign the architecture of a multi-core processor such that you can deliver the necessary performance both in the control plane as well as the data plane to scale up to the demands of the network.”

“The design of the multi-core processor is very different than the first generation multi-cores processor that you have out in the industry,” Muthal said.

The new ones have a fixed function and are built for a specific purpose but are still flexible. In addition, with the new ones each architecture is optimized.