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* [[Signalling (telecommunications)|Signalling]] applications, often considered [[control plane]] applications, including [[softswitch]], control functions in [[IP Multimedia Subsystem]] (IMS), control server (x-CSCF), [[signalling gateway]] (SGW), [[mobile switching centres]] (MSC).

* Bearer applications which pass or manipulate bearer traffic including both [[Telecommunication circuit|circuit]] and [[Internet Protocol|IP]] [[media gateway]]s, [[access network]] aggregators, [[Base Station Subsystem|Base Station Controller]] (BSC) and [[Radio Network Controller]] (RNC).

* [[Transport layer||Transport]] applications that are part of the [[access network]] including [[Digital subscriber line access multiplexer|IP-DSLAM]], [[Passive optical network|optical network termination]], [[optical line termination]].

* [[Base station]] applications a specialized class covering the needs of wireless base stations serving [[WiMAX]]/4G and [[3GPP]]/[[3GPP2]] networks.

The high integration and specialized features that characterize MPU class processor devices make them more efficient and thus more cost-effective than general purpose processors in many of these applications.

Also veryof importantvalue is that MPUs are sufficiently general as processors (they can run standard [[Linux]] [[Symmetric multiprocessing|SMP]] or lightweight simple [[Execution (computers)|executives]]) that one MPU based computer design can address a wide selection of the applications listed above using only different software loads. This reduces the number of different module types that are needed in a product line addressing both control and packet processing network functions. This has the result of reducing development volumes as well as inventory volumes.