Communications: Security Accelerator Cards Push SSL And IPsec Processing

Dec. 8, 2004

Sporting four-lane PCI Express interfaces, the NITROX XL NPX Security Accelerator Card family accelerates IPsec, secure socket layer, and wireless local-area-network security applications. The cards employ NITROX security processors, delivering 2.5 Gbits/s of security processing and 28,000 RSA operations/s. The NITROX XL NPX solution can offload system CPUs and deliver gigabit-plus performance for L4+ switches, load balancers, Web switches, and virtual-private-network appliances. Included in the NITROX XL NPX family are two initial board product options ranging in performance from 1.5 to 2.5 Gbits/s. A development kit is due in the first quarter of next year. Board prices range from $690 to $900 in 1000-unit quantities.

Cavium Networks Inc.
www.cavium.com

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Dave Bursky | Technologist

Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.