Cavium,
a provider of semiconductor products for networking, communications, and the
digital home, announced initial shipments of NITROX III processors to multiple
application delivery and enterprise OEM customers.

The
NITROX III security processor family integrates 16 to 64 purpose-built security
RISC cores and multiple compression engines to deliver up to 200K SSL ops, 40Gbps
SSL and IPSec and 20Gbps compression processing along with virtualization
hardware with a PCI-Express Gen 2 16-lane interface.

This
level of performance is up to 5 times greater than alternative multi-chip
solutions within the same power envelope.

The
NITROX product line is designed into data center, cloud infrastructure,
enterprise and service provider equipment including Application Delivery
Controllers, Cloud Server Offload, WAN Optimization Appliances, UTM Gateways,
routers, switches and servers.

NITROX
III processors are software compatible with Cavium‘s NITROX PX processors
with 12x performance increase, enabling increased scalability with seamless
software re-use.

“With
NITROX III, we now offer unmatched SSL, Security and Compression performance
and Hardware virtualization support in a single chip within an extremely
compact and power-efficient form-factor,” said Rajneesh Gaur, General
Manager of Cavium’s Accelerator & Adapter Group.

The
NITROX III Security Processor family delivers unmatched SSL and IPSec
performance, Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV), compression performance
and very low power consumption. The single-chip NITROX III processors do not
require external memory enabling lower cost, power and real-estate.

Additionally,
the NITROX III processors are supported by Cavium’s NITROX software development
kit (SDK) and are software compatible with the current generation of NITROX PX
parts that are widely deployed at several Tier 1 networking and security
vendors.

By
Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com