MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 26, 2010 –
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing for networking,
communications, and the digital home, today unveiled a new
family of security processors which deliver unprecedented
performance for secure and virtualized cloud computing and
the borderless enterprise. The NITROX III security processor
family integrates 16 to 64 purpose-built security RISC cores
with high performance compression engines and virtualization
hardware with a PCI-Express Gen 2 interface. This level
of performance is up to 10 times greater than alternative
multi-chip solutions within the same power envelope. This
enables OEM customers to achieve extremely high levels of
rich, secure services, all with very low power consumption.
The NITROX product line is the industry leading security
processor line designed into enterprise, data center and
service provider equipment including UTM Gateways, Application
Delivery Controllers, WAN Optimization Appliances, routers,
switches and servers.
Rapid adoption of data center and cloud computing initiatives
coupled with NIST (National institute of standards and technology)
guidelines per SP 800-57 on doubling key size from 1024
bit to 2048 bit for Secure Socket Layer (SSL), drives an
unprecedented level of security performance requirements
for Data Center and Borderless Enterprise equipment. Security
performance and demand is also driven by internet search
companies as they add SSL security to their mail and search
infrastructure. Additionally, vendors are rapidly adding
features to support virtualization in their data-center
networking and blade-server systems. In conjunction, high
performance traffic compression is becoming a critical feature
for data centers where vendors need to send an exploding
volume of traffic on limited capacity wires. Finally, energy
usage has become a dominant factor driving data-center and
enterprise cost and capacity, requiring next generation
networking solutions to fit in the smallest and most energy
efficient footprint. These critical requirements in today’s
networks require highly advanced technology with a tremendous
amount of application specific acceleration at very high
line rates.
The NITROX III Security Processor family delivers unmatched
SSL and security performance, virtualization features, compression
performance and very low power consumption, enabling Cavium’s
OEM customers to deliver breakthrough next generation solutions
which address these critical requirements, in an optimized,
energy efficient manner. 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
NITROX PX parts that are widely deployed at several Tier
1 networking and security vendors.
Supporting Quotes
"High performance SSL with support for 2048 bit keys,
virtualization, and traffic compression are key requirements
in the data center market," said Bob Wheeler, Senior
Analyst at The Linley Group. "Cavium's NITROX III processor
family effectively addresses these requirements, enabling
OEMs developing data center and cloud computing systems
to benefit from the significantly increased security and
compression performance, virtualization features, and power
efficiency of these security processors."
“The NITROX III product line has received tremendous
positive response and commitment from several Tier-1 customers
in data-center, service-provider and WAN optimization areas,”
said Rajiv Khemani, VP & GM of the Networking &
Communications Division, Cavium Networks. “With the
unabated increase in security performance requirements,
along with the increased need for WAN optimization and cloud
virtualization, we are confident that the NITROX III processor
will deliver a significant boost to the security processor
market.”
NITROX III Family Highlights
- Up to 64 Security Cores – Support
up to 40Gbps of security performance. Also support 200K
RSA Ops/sec for 1024 bit keys and 35K RSA Ops/sec for
2048 bit keys. Hardware footprint & software compatible
SKUs are available for 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps. This level
of processing is up to 10x of that available in the marketplace
today.
- Up to 4 Compression Engines - Enhanced
Compression/decompression acceleration – 5 to 20Gbps.
Support for GZIP, PKZIP, Inflate and Deflate algorithms.
Also includes support for LZS Compression that is widely
used for Storage applications.
- High bandwidth IO – PCI-Express
Gen2 x16 supports up to 40 Gbps of security and 20 Gbps
of Compression performance. Supports x4 and x8 lane configurations
as well.
- Virtualization support – Single
Root IO Virtualization feature on PCI-Express Gen 2 interface.
Includes support for 8, 16, 32 or 64 virtual functions
to meet the requirements of different system with a varying
number of CPU cores or Virtual machines.
- Latest security features – Includes
a Random Number Generator that is compliant to the new
FIPS 140-3 NIST standard that is required for next generation
security applications. Has support for a wide variety
of protocols including IPsec, SSL TLS 1.2, DTLS and ECC
Suite B. Also supports a wide variety of algorithms including
several variants of AES, 3DES, ARC4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2,
RSA 2048, RSA 4096, Kasumi, EC-DH and EC-DSA.
- Low power dissipation – 10W
to 20W options enables vendors to meet stringent power
requirements for data center equipment.
Software
The NITROX III Software Development Kit (SDK) includes x86
driver for Linux, feature rich APIs for a variety of protocols,
firmware and reference stacks for IPSec and SSL. The APIs,
firmware and protocol stacks are compatible with the current
NITROX PX SDK.
Availability
The NITROX III processor family is expected to sample in
Q2 2011 with design collateral for early customers available
in Q4 2010. It will be offered in 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 20 Gbps
and 40Gbps options. SSL SKU options include 50K SSL Ops/sec,
100K SSL Ops/sec and 200K SSL Ops/sec. Some members of the
NITROX III processor family are offered with compression
acceleration hardware. Compression performance options include
5 Gbps, 10Gbps and 20 Gbps. Please contact your Cavium sales
representative for additional details.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications and the digital home.. Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to 40 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium Networks principal offices are in Mountain View, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com
For additional information, contact:
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: : +1 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
