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The Hybrid Switch: Combining P4 Switching with Marvell OCTEON DPUs
⚡ The Technical Shift: Technical tear-down of hybrid switches (like Asterfusion) that couple an Intel Tofino or Broadcom switch chip with Marvell OCTEON processors on one internal bus.
🤖 The Operational Reality: Line-rate Layer 2/3 traffic processing on the switch ASIC, with complex Layer 4–7 tasks (like firewalling or stateful translation) routed to the DPU.
📐 Architectural Concept: Layered computing structures optimizing performance across diverse hardware capabilities.
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