Astute Networks Meeting Market Demand with SuperHBA Protocol Accelerators; Leader in Intelligent Protocol Acceleration Now Shipping Industry's Premier Board-Level Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Conference San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2004 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 Astute Networks, a leading provider of intelligent silicon-based protocol acceleration solutions, today announced general availability of its SuperHBA(TM) family of protocol accelerators. With the recent shipment of SuperHBA products to key customers, Astute Networks is tapping strong market demand for solutions that increase performance and lower costs in protocol processing applications. This announcement is made on the opening day of electronicaUSA with the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, North America's largest systems design event. Astute Networks also announced today the release of additional RapidStax(TM) software modules for the SuperHBA protocol accelerators. The new release includes four-port TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. termination software, as well as iSCSI target and initiator capabilities. The RapidStax software framework from Astute Networks is a fast protocol software development environment that allows for new protocols, features and products to be quickly implemented and easily maintained. SuperHBA protocol accelerators from Astute Networks deliver unprecedented levels of on-board processing for security and protocol tasks, as well as a degree of programmability that enables OEMs to develop end-user solutions that meet specific application and performance needs. The family of SuperHBA protocol accelerators is based on Astute Networks' Intelligent Protocol Processing (IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) A protocol for printing and managing print jobs over the Internet using HTTP. Initially conceived by Novell, Xerox and others, the IETF made it a standard in 2000 that includes authentication and encryption. See printing protocol and LPD. ) technology. IPP-based offerings represent the industry's first product category to address the need for "smarter" protocol processing. SuperHBA protocol accelerators are being integrated by OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers serving the mid and high-end server and Storage Array Front End (SAFE) markets. "Astute Networks is delivering on its promise to provide OEMs a true technological edge in a competitive global market," said Jon Siann, vice president of marketing, Astute Networks. "With our SuperHBA products now in the hands of customers, Astute Networks is strengthening its lead as the premier developer of cost-effective, high-performance processing solutions." SuperHBA protocol accelerators from Astute Networks are 3/4-size, PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. v1.0-compliant (64-bit, 33/66/133MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , 3.3V) adapter cards that include one, two or four 10/100/1000base-T (copper) ports. Compute-intensive security algorithms including ARC4, MD5, RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. , 3DES and AES for SSL/TCP and DES, 3DES, AES, MD5/SHA-1, Diffie-Hellman and IKE for IPsec/iSCSI processing are performed on the SA1000 SuperHBA by the NITROX II security processor. The Pericles IPP provides on-chip, full TCP and iSCSI protocol processing, eliminating resource-demanding interruptions to the host system. SuperHBA protocol accelerators deliver wire-speed throughput at up to 4Gbps with 400k I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Operations per second (IOPs). The SuperHBA family of protocol accelerators and RapidStax software modules from Astute Networks will be demonstrated this week at the electronicaUSA/Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, CA. Industry media are invited to view the product demos in the Astute Networks booth (741 & 743) during exhibit floor hours Tuesday, March 30 through Thursday, April 1 at the Moscone Convention Center. About Intelligent Protocol Processing Intelligent Protocol Processing (IPP) technology from Astute Networks combines a parallel processor architecture with embedded hardware engines for handling stateful protocols like TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. and Fibre Channel. IPP products program like a general-purpose CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , yet deliver the performance and cost-efficiency of a dedicated ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. . The ease of IPP programmability reduces the risk and cost of new product development. At the same time, IPP's ASIC-like efficiency allows OEMs to cost-effectively increase and scale the protocol processing of I/O ports. These attributes enable IPP to lower the end user's cost of ownership by reducing product costs, simplifying operator tasks and facilitating co-existence with legacy systems. Astute Networks estimates the total available market for IPP solutions to exceed $1.4B by 2007, with a current annual growth rate over 50%. About Astute Networks Astute Networks designs and markets intelligent silicon-based protocol acceleration technologies to OEM partners worldwide. Astute Networks enables customers in the server, storage array, switch and gateway and content/security appliance markets to deliver competitive advantages and cost-effective IT solutions. Founded in April 2000, Astute Networks is based in San Diego, CA. Additional information is available at www.astutenetworks.com. |
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