SUNNYVALE, Calif. MMC Networks Inc. will collaborate with Lara Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) to offer Lara's SuperCAM search engines with MMC's family of network processors.
While the companies have no immediate plans to combine MMC's network processors with Lara's SuperCAM engines which are based on content-addressable memories into single-chip solutions, Lara's new ternary memories will be co-marketed with MMC's network processors to provide more efficient look-up table architectures for policy-based networking requiring multiple parallel searches of Internet Protocol packet headers, the companies said.