Network Applications Acceleration

There has been developed family of cards called COMBO under the auspices of the CESNET association. These cards carry programmable field array and their purpose is intended into accelerating of net traffic. There is also a platform called NetCOPE which is based on these cards and it's purpose is to accelerate and simplify the development of network applications. This thesis contains a detailed analysis of data throughput through a whole platform and describes some possible improvements which should reflect in a better performance of the whole platform