CAVIUM NETWORKS UNVEILS SECURE MULTI-GIGABIT NIC FAMILY.Cavium Networks has unveiled the NITROX XL Secure Network Interface Card (NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. ) Family, the industry's highest performing secure GbE NIC family in a standard 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. card form-factor. The NITROX XL Secure NIC Family is a versatile adaptor family with 1 to 4 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that utilizes Cavium Networks NITROX II In-line security processor to significantly accelerate IPsec, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. and Wireless LAN security One issue with corporate wireless networks in general, and WLANs in particular, involves the need for security. Many early access points could not discern whether or not a particular user had authorization to access the network. processing, offload 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. functions and support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic in enterprise server and appliance configurations. Additionally Intoto, a provider of security software solutions, is delivering iGateway, a full-featured, robust VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. software platform with support for the NITROX XL Secure NIC Family. The NITROX XL Secure NIC solution is ideally suited to delivering gigabit-plus performance and dramatically offloading the server 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. for VPN, Wireless LAN, Storage and Server Load Balancing equipment. NITROX II based Secure Multi-Gigabit NIC Family provides high performance, off-the-shelf solution Driven by e-commerce, remote access, business-to-business transactions, and secure storage access -- security feature requirements for servers are rapidly increasing. However, encryption and packet-processing functions consume the majority of server CPU cycles. Off-loading security processing to an In-line security macro-processor enhances security performance by 10-20 times while dramatically freeing up the CPU to process other applications. Moreover, the NITROX XL NIC dramatically reduces the PCI-X bus utilization by up to 50% by combining both NIC and Security processing in one card instead of having two separate PCI cards. Cavium Networks NITROX XL Secure Multi-Gigabit NIC Family provides the industry's highest measured performance of up to 3.4 Gbps for IPsec protocol processing and 18,000 DH operations/second on a standard server platform. The NITROX XL NIC Family also offloads TCP functions, such as IP and TCP checksum A value used to ensure data are stored or transmitted without error. It is created by calculating the binary values in a block of data using some algorithm and storing the results with the data. and CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. calculation, further freeing up the server CPU. Rich product features for Enterprise Server and Appliance Configurations The NITROX XL Secure NIC Family is based on the CN2130 NITROX II Security Processor which is a member of the world's fastest Security Processor Family from Cavium Networks. The Secure NIC has a rich feature set that includes support for a broad range of symmetric encryption including DES, 3DES, AES (all modes up to 256 bit) and ARC4, as well as asymmetric encryption including 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. and Diffie Hellman. Unique in-line capabilities such as layer 2 and 3 header parsing enable support for a broad range of traffic types. The NIC Family includes standard 64-bit PCI-X/PCI interface with support for 33/66/100/133 MHz (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. bus speeds. The product has been designed with support for both copper and fiber network interfaces and is IEEE 802.3z and 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet compliant. In order to provide flexibility to customers, the NIC family comes with or without DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory memory. For more information, visit http://www.cavium.com/NITROX-II-Secure-NIC . "This is the first secure multi-gigabit Ethernet NIC family in the market and it provides a comprehensive solution to 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," said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "With high performance, rich security and packet processing functionality, and off-the-shelf availability, Cavium's NITROX XL Secure Multi-Gigabit NIC Family will promote increased security for servers and appliances." Complete Solution with Leading Commercial and Open-source Software Stack Support The Cavium Networks development kit for the NITROX XL Secure NIC Family includes Linux, FreeBSD and operating system independent drivers, debug utilities, APIs, and open-source implementation of IPsec/IKE stacks with both IPv4 and IPv6 support. Additionally, Intoto will deliver iGateway, a robust, full-featured VPN software platform optimized for in-line security processing. With this rich software and hardware solution, customers can quickly integrate the Secure Multi-Gigabit NIC into their system with minimal engineering effort. Product Pricing and Availability The NITROX XL Secure Multi-Gigabit NIC Family and the development kit is in production and available immediately. Intoto IPsec software support will be available in Q3 '04. Pricing for the NIC family ranges from $950 to $1,650 in 1KU quantities. "The addition of the NITROX II Secure Multi-Gigabit NIC Family to our award-winning security processor and board product portfolio delivers an unmatched solution for gigabit-plus security applications," said Rajiv Khemani, VP of Marketing of Cavium Networks. "This new product family has dramatically raised the bar for performance and price/performance for server security applications." About Cavium Networks Cavium Networks is a semiconductor solutions company delivering the industry's largest family of network security products. Cavium's award winning NIT A measurement of luminance. One nit is equal to one candela per square meter (1cd/m2). Ten thousand nits are equal to one stilb. See candela. ROX families of security processors and NITROX XL families of accelerator boards offers solutions delivering 50 Mbps to 10Gbps of encryption bandwidth with 1K to 50K RSA/DH operations per second. Cavium's highly integrated, feature rich NITROX families of Security Macro Processors deliver unprecedented performance in wired and wireless network security applications and SSL based secure e-Business while significantly reducing the cost and complexity of deployment. Cavium Networks is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, CA with an IC design center in Marlboro, MA. Cavium Networks can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cavium.com/. For more information, call 408/844-8420, ext. 212. |
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