An Ultra High-Speed Compressor for Packet Networks

As it has been already proved, link layer compression is very effective when used in packet networks. However one of the major problems in such compression schemes, is that there should exist hardware modules capable of compressing the network streams up to the speed of the state-of-theart links. In this paper we present such a hardware compressor/decompressor that can work up to these speeds, it is inexpensive and can very easily be plugged into an existing network without causing any side effects. It is also claimed that the complexity of its architecture is very similar to that of a network switch and thus we believe this compressor/decompressor will be capable of serving even the faster networks of the future.