In this paper we introduce a programmable stream processing engine working as a co-processor in a Network Processor egress path. By using a special pipelining architecture several generic manipulations can be performed on-the-fly on a packet data stream with line-speed. In two measurement scenarios for IP forwarding and IP tunneling we demonstrate the benefits of the Post-Processor concept compared to a pure software reference implementation.
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