Corrent Achieves OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2002 Corrent's S2000 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 Tested to Ensure Interoperability with Industry's Most Recognized Security Framework; Boosts 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. Performance Corrent Corporation, an industry-leading provider of security co-processor and card solutions, today announced that it has achieved OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for (TM) (Open Platform for Security) certification for its S2000 IPsec accelerator PCI-X card from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). Through OPSEC certification, Corrent's S2000 seamlessly integrates with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1(R) Next Generation solution, enabling breakthrough VPN performance for both symmetric-key and public-key IPsec operations. The Corrent S2000 significantly improves the throughput of Check Point's VPN-1 Next Generation platform, boosting VPN throughput to over 350Mbps for a single Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor at 2.8GHz server platform. Depending on packet size, users can experience a 2X to 4X improvement on throughput over comparable VPN solutions. "Corrent's alliance with Check Point delivers a powerful, high performance VPN solution," said Larry Woodson, VP of Sales and Marketing for Corrent Corporation. "We have worked closely with Check Point to ensure a seamless integration for acceleration around their industry-leading security solutions. We are excited to offer Check Point customers the assurance of interoperability provided by the OPSEC certification." The S2000 will offload the compute-intensive IPsec related encryption/decryption processing from the system 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. , freeing up valuable CPU cycles and system memory for other functionality such as management, firewall and other related security operations. The S2000 is based on Corrent's Microprocessor Report award-winning CR7020 security processor, which includes integrated IPsec offload engines for DES, 3DES, AES, SHA SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm 1, and MD5, and an integrated public key engine supporting the standard PKCS (Public Key Cryptography Standards) Specifications from RSA Laboratories for various techniques used with RSA public key cryptography. With cooperation from security experts worldwide, PKCS #1 covers the RSA standard itself. #11 interface for asymmetric key generation. "We are pleased to see the Corrent S2000 achieve OPSEC certification, offering additional choice, flexibility and cost-effective ways to increase performance of VPN gateways," said Upesh Patel, group manager, OPSEC Alliance, for Check Point Software Technologies. "As the demand for VPN performance increases, products like the Corrent S2000 card enable our customers to leverage the cost benefits of open systems and easily achieve scalable, wire-speed performance for a fraction of the price of competing solutions without having to replace the existing gateway." Pricing and Availability Available immediately, pricing for the Corrent S2000 starts at $US595.00 each in quantities of 1K units. The S2000 is a 1/4-sized, 3.3V 64bit 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. PCI-X-based card. Included with the card is documentation and complete installation suites for Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. and Windows 2000 environments. For more information about Corrent's S2000 or any of Corrent's security solutions, please visit www.corrent.com or contact the company directly at 480.648.2300. About Corrent Corporation Corrent Corporation is a semiconductor and system solutions company providing high-speed Internet security. Corrent's scalable, channelized Refers to an architecture that transmits data in channels. It often refers to the 64 Kbps channels in T1 lines, which were originally developed to handle digitized voice streams (TDM). See TDM. , high-performance architecture products perform encryption at the fastest data rates in the industry -- doubling the performance of existing solutions. Advanced design techniques for silicon, boards, and software deliver a complete sub-system solution to designers of existing and future 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 products, while providing ease of integration and time-to-market advantages. Corrent's products are designed for use in edge access networking equipment such as routers, switches, servers, access concentrators, and dedicated IP-services appliances. About Check Point's OPSEC OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 325 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com. All trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective companies. |
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