The LS1046A enables a low cost, feature dense, convection cooled branch office router design featuring hardware processing for advanced data path off load and quad-core ARM 64-bit processors for high touch data and control path applications. The chip also supports hardware enabled virtualization elements for 3rd party applications. It also delivers the CPU bandwidth needed for next generation wired and wireless virtualized router platforms supporting SDN and NFV applications while maintaining high performance VPN links to the cloud. In the security appliance space the LS1046A comes with the option for 8 Gbps, single pass cryptographic offload and 12 Gbps data path parse, classification and distribution hardware for delivering flows to cores for additional security processing. With quad-core design, the chip can run deep packet inspection, SPI firewall and IDS/IPS within a single chip.