Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Goody goody! Telecom geek talk! (Any chance you're female, curvy, and about 5'8"? What are wearing right now.) Anyway, Bill Stewart wrote... You'd be surprised - we're seeing tons of interest in it at AT&T, partly because of MAN vendors like Yipes and OnFiber (who bought Telseon) and partly b

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:38 PM 03/03/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: But basically I was thinking about Packet-over-SONET (POS), which is "PPP encapsulated HDLC framed IP". So after the POS link was terminated, I imagined that this little device would basically now look at the raw IP and do some pre-processing bef

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
eting product literature. Nobody actually runs GbE outside their TSB (Tall Shiny Building) or campus...yet (and to date there's no strong indication they will). From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:23 AM 03/03/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Maybe they actually plan on making their money from selling those SDKs! (Perhaps they hope for some trickle down from the all the $ startups get for making Powerpoint slides.) And I see they don't really have an architecture suitable for SONET-map

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Peter Gutmann
Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From http://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Nitrox2PR.htm: "Product pricing at 1KU >lot quantities ranges from $295 for the CN2130 to $795 for the CN2560. The >NITROX II Software Development Kit is priced at $9995." > >Not priced for a huge number of implementors

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Tyler Durden
over OC-48 or a single 10GbE (802.11 WAN). -TD From: Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cavium Security Processor Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:53:13 -0800 (PST) On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Anyo

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > 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

Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread 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