Corrent Offers Gigabit-rate VPN/SSL Performance with a Cost-Effective Enterprise and Server PCI Card Solution.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002

Corrent's new CR7110 enables cost-effective and low-power security

processing for Firewall/VPN appliances and line cards

Corrent Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company developing high-performance, standards-based Internet security processors, today announced immediate availability of the CR7110, the latest product addition to the Packet Armor(TM) family of gigabit performance security processors.

Built to enable cost-effective, low-power, security processing for Firewall/VPN appliances and line cards, the CR7110 packs 1.0 gigabit (Gbps) of IPsec/SSL performance with affordable Enterprise and Server PCI card solutions.

Designed for enterprise-based equipment and PCI servers cards for up to 1 Gbps applications, the CR7110 has a unique change feature that allows users to switch between IP VPN and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) making it also an ideal solution for mid-range Gbps products handling both IPsec/SSL protocols. The CR7110's one-of-a-kind programmable, on-chip protocol design opens the PCI bottleneck with the capability to handle high-speed data.

"Good gigabit solutions for the mid-range enterprise requires that the security processor off-load the computationally intensive cipher algorithms from the NPU or CPU, thereby reducing both total system power consumption and cost," said Eric Mantion, senior analyst at In Stat/MDR. "Corrent's early commitment to both in-line and look aside architectures has given them the ability to interface with a wide variety of the myriad of different NPU and CPU vendors that are present in the market today."

Corrent's new solution is designed to circumvent operating system overhead, as well as bus latency issues, thus allowing I/O cards with the CR7110 to perform at "true" gigabit short packets (114B) of encrypted data rates. Designed on a 1/2 size PCI card with a GigE port to SPI-3 I/F, Corrent's CR7110 provides the most cost-effective VPN server card solution available today.

"For the past two months, customers have been testing the CR7110. The results show that this is another successful Corrent product, offering the highest performance to cost ratio in the industry," says Hemanshu Bhatnagar Vice President of Silicon Engineering. "OEMs building GigE or SPI-3 line cards for low to mid-range enterprise servers recognize the great value available in the CR7110 product."

Corrent's CR7110: High-Performing Security Processing

The CR7110 incorporates Corrent's unique, patent-pending, programmable protocol engine, giving designers tremendous flexibility for handling different forms of packet traffic. The CR7110 can be programmed for multiple implementation configurations (e.g. shared resource, in-line, look aside) and can also be customized for OEM-specific differentiation and value-add functionality.

The Corrent CR7110 Security processor is a security system-on-a-chip providing in-line IPsec packet and SSL record processing, streaming encryption and public key acceleration within a single silicon device. The technology can concurrently perform all IPsec protocol processing optimized at small packet sizes (114 byte encrypted packets) at gigabit rates, while executing as many as 500-700 main mode IKE tunnel setups per second (DH/RSA sign method). In addition, the CR7110 can switch to handle SSL up to 1.5Gbps -- record-processing traffic and 72,000 (1024 bit) RSA Decrypts/min and can be programmed to switch between protocols.

The on-chip modulo engine features Key Blaster(TM) technology for accelerating for both VPN and SSL public algorithm acceleration such as RSA, DSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms. The CR7110 security processor supports all the major security encryption and hash algorithms: DES, 3DES, RC4 and AES. Corrent's SmartHash(TM) technology improves hashing performance when running SHA-1, MD5, HMAC-SHA-1 and HMAC-MD5. The CR7110 support s a 32bit/66MHz PCI bus used for system control and exception traffic and a SPI-3 interface for streaming packets and a high-speed DDR memory for local data buffering.

Pricing and Availability

The CR7110 is packaged in a 600 HSBGA priced at $175 in quantities of 5K. Samples are available now. Corrent also offers a CR7110 development platform for $4995. The CR7110 FRS (Flexible Reference System) is a stand-alone IPsec accelerator box that has the ability to connect to any network processor reference system via two-gigabit Ethernet ports. The FRS provides the flexibility of a quick evaluation and various usage configurations (in-line, look-aside) without incurring additional hardware development costs. The Linux-based development system includes the CR7110 software library API and PCI drivers, inter-processor communication software and the IPsec manager interface. CR7110 FRSs are immediately available as well.

For more information about Corrent's CR7110 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, 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 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. For more information visit www.corrent.com.