The NCP-5260 represents a new generation of hybrid system designs with Intel® architecture processing on the control plane, and Packetarium™ network processing cards for the data plane. It integrates up to two powerful, multi-Core Packetarium™ network processing cards for wire speed packet processing and accomodates up to 16 x 10 GbE external interfaces. The main carrier board provides the high-speed switched interconnects between Packetarium cards. The Intel® Xeon-based server board provides storage, system-management and remote management network connections.