Cisco poised for chip purchase

Cisco is close to acquiring Spans Logic, a start-up building ternary content-addressible memories (TCAMs) – chips designed for the complex table searches performed by IP routers, reports Light Reading. Cisco is a big customer for TCAMs, the story reads. “One source believes Cisco intends to integrate Spans Logic’s TCAM into Cisco ASICs; another says Cisco has told its chip suppliers to begin interoperability tests with Spans Logic,” according to Light Reading.