Corrent Introduces Industry's First Complete Security Processor Securing Next-Generation Internet Transactions Today.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. Corrent Booth #3349 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002 The CR7120 Combines High Performance, Complete Public Key Acceleration and Full IPsec Protocol Off-Load in a Single Device Building on its solid track record of delivering semiconductors and system solutions for high-speed Internet See broadband. security, Corrent today announced immediate availability of the CR7120, the first silicon product in the company's Packet Armor(TM) security processing platform. The devices are scheduled for full production availability in the fourth quarter of 2002. Using Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. Security (IPsec) standards, the CR7120 operates at speeds up to three gigabits per second throughput using Corrent's new programmable IPsec packet engine to accelerate IP-based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) over both public and private networks. "Corrent's products allow for the fastest data rates in the industry and offload not only the encryption functions, but also all of the IPsec packet processing functions from the network processor," said Sherry Garber, senior vice president of Semico Research Corporation. "This simplifies the integration of Corrent products into existing 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. designs and frees up valuable processing cycles of the network processor." The CR7120 handles complete IPsec packet handling and security. This computationally intensive function often over-burdens data plane and/or network processors. System designers incorporating the CR7120 into equipment such as high-speed routers, VPN firewalls, multi-channel VPN PCI cards, access concentrators and other Internet aggregation devices will see virtually zero impact to the system's optical speed performance as the network load associated with handling IPsec becomes transparent. "It's a 'hand-off and forget' security solution," said Richard Takahashi, 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 Corrent. "System designers need not worry about programming their systems to comply with the IPsec standard -- the CR7120 handles all that for them in hardware. Network transparency Reading and/or writing to resources on the network (folders, files, printers, etc.) as if they were attached locally. Either built into the operating system or a separate file sharing component, network transparency implies that there is no additional effort required by the user or by the equates to higher throughput of secure data and ease of integration within a given piece of network equipment." Built for speed, the CR7120 is a security system-on-a-chip providing high-speed IPsec packet processing, streaming encryption and public key acceleration within a single silicon device. The CR7120 can concurrently perform all IPsec protocol processing, including encrypt/decrypt at full-duplex-gigabit IP data rates (worst case 64byte packet sizes), while executing as many as 2300 main mode tunnel setups per second (DH/RSA sign method). The CR7120 can support up to one million IPsec VPN tunnels along with current cryptographic standards on a Gigabit Ethernet or higher speed optical link, with an easy transition path to the next-generation high-speed network infrastructure. The processor's high-performance architecture supports DES, 3DES and ARC4 encryption algorithms along with the AES, the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ) most recently FIPS-approved symmetric encryption algorithm for next-generation security platforms. Its on-chip modulo A mathematical operation (modulus arithmetic) in which the result is the remainder of a division. Also known as the "remainder operator," it is used to solve a variety of problems. For example, the following code in the C language determines if a number is odd or even. engine features Key Blaster(TM) public key acceleration technology for 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. , DSA (1) (Directory Server Agent) An X.500 program that looks up the address of a recipient in a Directory Information Base (DIB), also known as white pages. It accepts requests from the Directory User Agent (DUA) counterpart in the workstation. , and Diffie-Hellman algorithms; its SmartHash(TM) technology improves performance when running HMAC-SHA-1, HMAC-MD5, SHA-1 and MD5 and its integral memory support minimizes data path overhead for streaming packets. The CR7120 has the industry's best available performance in IPsec and VPN applications as measured by both speed and public key acceleration capabilities. "Corrent provides all the components for a complete system solution to network OEMs," added Takahashi. "Along with the industry's highest-performance security silicon, we supply hardware reference platform, cards and a full IPsec software stack that has been well received by our target customers. Now with three devices introduced to the market since we began in late 2000, our architecture is well proven. This enables us to incrementally add functionality like our IPsec protocol engine and you can expect to see additional innovation from us in the months to come." The anticipated explosive growth of e-commerce as well as the development of broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a and the emergence of digital media, applications services, distributed storage area networks ensure that the demand for robust Internet security solutions will accelerate dramatically over the next 12 to 18 months. VPNs are becoming more common and are being required to handle more Internet traffic. Corrent is building products that not only can handle this traffic, but are easy to deploy in 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 systems. Pricing for the CR7120 is $350 in quantities of 1000. About Corrent Corporation Corrent Corporation is a semiconductor company providing high-performance Internet silicon and system solutions for both public and private IP networks. Corrent's modular architecture performs encryption at the fastest data rates in the industry -- doubling the performance of existing solutions. With three products in the market currently, Corrent delivers complete sub-system solutions to network OEM, providing ease of integration and time-to-market advantages. A recent winner of Microprocessor Report's Security Processor of the Year Award for 2001, Corrent's products are designed for use in networking infrastructure equipment such as routers, switches, Web servers, access concentrators, and dedicated IP-services systems. For more information visit www.corrent.com. |
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