NetLogic Microsystems Now Sampling Industry's Fastest and Largest Database Network Search Engines for Layer 3+ Routing Applications.Business Editors and 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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002 New Devices Perform Up to 133 Million Searches Per Second; Accommodating Over 512K Routing Entries Per Device NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., the leader in network data plane system solutions that enable the global infrastructure of networking and optical communications Optical communications The transmission of speech, data, video, and other information by means of the visible and the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. , today announced sample availability of the industry's largest database size network search engines that can accommodate more than half of a million Layer 3 routing entries per device. With the ability to perform up to 133 million searches per second, the high-performance NSEx512 family of search engines is targeted to meet the challenging requirements of OC-48 and OC-192 Internet routers, switches and optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. equipment. The new search engines are the fastest in the industry with search rates up to 133 million per second and clock speeds up to 266 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. . They also offer the widest user-defined fields for QoS enforcement, IPv6 classification and other content-based packet classification functions. The database size and entry-width flexibility improve the performance of network database searches for enterprise switches/routers, metropolitan area optical networking equipment and Internet edge routers. The network search engine architecture provides a high-capacity rules database, bit-level masking granularity and high-speed pipelined deterministic compare operations. A shared or multi-drop depth cascading scheme is provided for database expansion. The NSEx512 family is important for a wide variety of networking applications that require high-speed data comparison operations such as Voice over IP (VoIP), streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and audio, virtual private networks (VPNs) and other performance-intensive applications. "The NSEx512 represents NetLogic's continued technology leadership in the network search engine market," said Jim McDermott
James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott (born December 28 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is the current U.S. Representative for Washington's At-large congressional district. , director of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. "Offering half a million database entries in a single device is unprecedented. This kind of capacity allows network equipment vendors to realize very large databases with a reduced footprint and much lower power." About the NSEx512 NetLogic's NSEx512 product families can be clocked at speeds of up to 266 MHz. These devices offer a database size of more than half of a million packet forwarding entries per device. Additionally, the devices are depth cascadable without frequency penalty to accommodate up to two million entries. This feature allows database expandability with a consistent software and hardware interface regardless of the number of devices in cascade. A "glue-less" version of each device will integrate NetLogic's exclusive Multi-Processor Search Interface (MPSI MPSI Martin Process Solutions, Inc. MPSI Multi-Problem Screening Inventory MPSI MacLean Photographic & Sporting Images MPSI Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland ) technology into the same device, eliminating the need for additional hardware such as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. or ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. in order to interface directly to merchant network processors (NPUs). The NSEx512 offers a host processor interface to provide a flexible and efficient solution for adding and deleting database entries. Additional optional features include aging and learning for Layer 2 database entries, and traffic policing functionality. Alliances with key network processor manufacturers such as AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) (Nasdaq: AMCC) and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ) have been established for the "glue-less" version of the product family. Product Availability Samples are available now for the NSEx512 with volume production scheduled for Q3 2002. The devices are available in a plastic BGA (Ball Grid Array) A popular surface mount chip package that uses a grid of solder balls as its connectors. Available in plastic and ceramic varieties, BGA is noted for its compact size, high lead count and low inductance, which allows lower voltages to be used. package. About NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. NetLogic Microsystems, located in Mountain View, Calif., defines, designs and markets highly differentiated solutions that enable the global infrastructure of networking and optical communications to achieve the highest performance and functionality. NetLogic's family of data plane solutions include classification and forwarding processors and network search engines that bring OC-48/192/768 wire-speed performance to key networking applications such as guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). NetLogic also provides glue-less interface solutions that accelerate design and development of leading-edge networking equipment. For more information about products offered by NetLogic, call 650.961.6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at www.netlogicmicro.com. |
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