Sorry, the fair is not in Hamburg -
where I come from,
but in Nuernberg, southern Germany.

Otfried

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Esteban Ribičić" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?


> Don't ask me how i end up signing up for an interesting conference in
> Germany while googling for optimization:
>
> "The embedded world Exhibition&Conference is the world's biggest
> exhibition of its kind and the meeting-place of the international
> embedded community. Embedded technologies are in action everywhere -
> whether in the car, data and telecommunication systems, industrial and
> consumer electronics, military systems or aerospace. Almost 600
> exhibitors from approx. 29 countries showed the full range of products
> for embedded technologies in 2007: hardware, software, tools, services
> and lots more"
>
> http://www.embedded-world.de/main/Page.html
>
> I think for the ones of u that live in Europe its an interesting
> meeting. Hamburg is an easy to get city from almost anywhere and it
> seems to have many workshops. Besides, its really affordable!
>
> On 11/8/07, Bill Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello Esteban:
>>
>> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:37 +0100, Esteban Ribičić wrote:
>>
>> > What does that mean technically? Is there any short answer? any url to
>> > point me at? What makes this hardware "optimized" for frames
>> > switching?
>>
>> A guess: if "frames switching" means "moving bytes from one interface to
>> another", then a possible form of optimization would be to keep the data
>> paths short with as little processing as possible in between. And to
>> avoid bottlenecks by using fast hardware where processing is needed.
>> Probably applies to a Soekris box. I guess..
>>
>> Bill
>>
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