Cavium Networks Delivers World's Fastest Security Macro Processor; Cavium Networks is Now Sampling the Complete Family of NITROX Security Macro Processors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2002 Cavium Networks, a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. today announced that it has been sampling the NITROX(TM) Security Macro processor since March 2002. The NITROX processor is a single chip security-processing solution that accelerates security protocols such as IPsec and 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. with bulk encryption and secure session establishment. "Today by announcing NITROX's availability, we are changing the security processing landscape forever," said Syed Ali, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cavium Networks. "NITROX's value proposition of 10x performance with low cost, power and area will change the economics of security deployment. With easy integration and low cost, we will enable wide spread deployment of secure applications that we have only talked about. Secure DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the , iSCSI, authenticated Microsoft .NET services and traditional SSL, IPsec applications can now be integrated into systems with little to no performance penalty." Custom microprocessor design techniques give NITROX the highest performance at the lowest cost, power and area. NITROX's unique architecture allows Macro offload of protocol processing to reduce the required host 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. cycles and efficiently utilize precious 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 bandwidth. Other key features include programmability to accommodate future protocol changes and adaptive processing to dynamically switch between asymmetric or bulk data application requirements. NITROX supports cryptographic ciphers 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. , Diffie-Helman, 3DES, ARC4, AES, MD5 and SHA-1 at rates greater than 50K RSA OPS or 5Gbps 3DES+SHA-1. "NITROX sets a new pace in the security processor market, outrunning all other available products in both IPSec and SSL applications," said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group. "In fact, at up to 40,000 SSL handshakes per second, NITROX is literally ten times faster than the leading SSL accelerators from Broadcom and Hifn today." Complete NITROX Evaluation system with PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , 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. or HyperTransport(TM) I/Os is now available to enable system designers to quickly integrate high performance SSL or IPsec functionality into their networking equipment. The Evaluation system includes low level drivers, middleware and application reference code. The Evaluation system can be used in a wide variety of networking equipment such as routers, switches, web-servers, server load balancers, firewalls, SANs, and VPN gateways. The NITROX evaluation board has local DRAM for IPsec SA or SSL session context, an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. for private key storage and a separate USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. or RS232 for trusted path (PSE PSE 1. pale soft exudative pork. 2. portosystemic encephalopathy. ) key management. The PSE interface facilitates the development of FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) A series of publications issed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that specifies information security guidelines for federal government departments and agencies. 140-2 certified devices by providing a tight cryptographic boundary. The NITROX family consists of many products ranging from medium to very high performance products with varying features and price. The products now available include SSL acceleration CN1120s-350, CN1230s-350, CN1240s-350, CN1340s-450 and IPsec acceleration CN1120i-350, CN1230i-350, CN1240i-350, CN1340i-450. Prices range from $200 to $600 in volume. For detailed chip and evaluation system pricing please contact Cavium Networks. About Cavium Networks Cavium Networks is a semiconductor company focused on developing and manufacturing high performance security processing solutions that will enable the new Internet security infrastructure. Cavium's highly integrated, feature rich NITROX family of Security Macro Processors delivers unprecedented performance in SSL based secure e-Business and IPsec based network security applications while significantly reducing the cost and complexity of deployment. Cavium Networks is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose, CA with an IC design center in Marlboro, MA. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com Product photos, datasheets and application notes are available upon request. NITROX is a trademark of Cavium Networks, Inc. The HyperTransport(TM) Consortium, HyperTransport(TM) Technology and combinations thereof are trademarks of HyperTransport(TM) Consortium. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Glossary of terms
Term Definition
AES Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
A cryptographic algorithm to succeed DES
ARC4 A cryptographic algorithm
DES/3DES Data Encryption Standard cryptographic
algorithms
Diffie-Hellman A key agreement algorithm published by
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman
FIPS 140-2 Federal Information Processing Standard for
security requirements
HyperTransport(TM) High-speed, high-performance, point-to-point
link for integrated circuits
IPsec IP security protocol
RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA). An algorithm for
asymmetric cryptography
SSL Secure Socket Layer. An Internet protocol for
web security
VPN Virtual Private Network
iSCSI IP based storage protocol
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