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How Chips Are Securing the Data Plane with Hardware Firewalls
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Episode How Chips Are Securing the Data Plane with Hardware Firewalls
Episode 64 of The Hardware Podcast explores how chip designers are embedding dedicated hardware firewalls directly into networking silicon to protect data in motion. Lucas and Luna break down the architecture behind in-line security engines that inspect packets at line rate without sacrificing throughput. They discuss a real deployment at a major cloud provider that cut latency by 40 percent compared to software-based filtering, and walk through the trade-offs of putting firewall logic on the data plane versus the control plane. The conversation also touches on the rise of programmable match-action pipelines and why hyperscalers are pushing for open-source P4-based designs. If you design network chips or care about how your cloud traffic stays safe, this episode gives you the technical details that matter.
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