Cavium Security Processor

[Tyler Durden]

Anyone have any comments?
This seems to be of only occasional usefulness. You'd need a chip for every 
POS/PPP/HDLC connection in the SONET signal. This could be a single 
connection (unlikely, OC-192c is rare), or hundreds (DS-1s? If not, 16 
STS-3cs).
-TD



SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Cavium Networks, the cost and performance leader in 
security processing today announced the NITROX II™ family of In-line 
Security Macro Processors that eliminates the security processing bottleneck 
by providing a range of true “bump-in-the-wire” processors with performance 
ranging from 2 Gbps to 10 Gbps of IPsec or SSL security protocol processing. 
The single chip NITROX II family equipped with high performance, streaming 
SPI-3 and SPI-4 interfaces complements Cavium’s award-winning NITROX Lite, 
NITROX and NITROX Plus family of security processors, which started shipping 
in production volumes in 2002. The NITROX II family of processors will be 
used in a wide range of multi-gigabit networking equipment such as routers, 
switches, web-servers, server load balancers, firewalls, SANs, and VPN 
gateways, enabling a secure and authenticated Internet.

"IPSec VPNs are mainstream, and SSL-based VPN products are starting to ship 
in volume, " said Jeff Wilson Executive Director, of Infonetics Research. 
"All types and sizes of organizations are rolling out encrypted network 
services. NITROX II, with its in-line functionality and wide performance 
range will enable networking vendors to quickly integrate cost effective, 
wire speed security into existing networking equipment and meet the market 
demand of wide-spread security deployment."

Existing security processors that off-load IPsec security protocol 
processing are look-aside architectures that sit off a host CPU or NPU. This 
look-aside architecture requires a substantial number of host processor 
cycles to do packet parsing, classification, lookups and management for the 
traffic between the host and the security processor, so the host CPU or NPU 
becomes the performance bottleneck. Cavium's NITROX II with its built-in 
capability to sit in-line between the MAC and the host processor completely 
off-loads security processing from the host processor and eliminates this 
bottleneck.

Cavium Networks Inc.





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