Qosmos announces support for
Cavium Networks OCTEON™ Multicore MIPS64® based
processors
Paris, France and Mountain View, CA, March 21,
2007–Qosmos (www.qosmos.com),
a leader in Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, announced
today its partnership with Cavium Networks, a leading provider
of highly integrated semiconductor processors that enable
intelligent networking, communications and security applications,
to deliver optimised Q Engine™ software suites ready-to-run
on Cavium Networks’ OCTEON™ Multi-core MIPS64
based processor family.
Qosmos Q-Engine is the most powerful Deep Packet Inspection
(DPI) technology on the market, providing 100% successful
identification of application protocols at wirespeeds up
to 10 Gbit/s.
Qosmos Q Engine is a software development kit (SDK) for
implementing new generation traffic classification technology
in network equipment. Qosmos Q-Engine inspects Layer 2 through
Layer 7 of the OSI model, managing peer to peer traffic
as well as proprietary business applications. The DPI technology
identifies and classifies traffic based on a signature database
enabling the user to perform flow redirection, marking/tagging
for QoS purposes, blocking, rate limiting, and reporting
to an agent on the network.
The OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 based processor family consists
of over 25 different parts with application performance
ranging from 1Gbps to 10Gbps and price points starting under
$20. The OCTEON processor family consists of processors
with 1 to 16 cores on a single chip with integrated Ethernet
and/or SPI4.2 networking interfaces, DRAM DDR-2 memory controller,
optional RLDRAM/DDR-2 memory controller, optional TCAM connectivity
and internal hardware acceleration for packet processing,
TCP, Security, compression / decompression and string matching.
Q-Engine™ software and the OCTEON processors are
used by independent software vendors and networking equipment
vendors to build solutions requiring real time monitoring
of IP flows and extraction of data to deliver critical services
such as service quality and customer experience management,
lawful intercept, communications and data loss control,
mobile data services charging and market intelligence.
“Cavium Networks is pleased to partner with Qosmos,
whose cutting edge DPI software platform will enable our
mutual OEM customers to develop and launch innovative new
services platforms over high throughput networks of 10 Gbit/s
or more, with reduced time to market and low cost”,
said Rajiv Khemani, Vice-President of Marketing and Sales
of Cavium Networks.
“The combination of Q-Engine™ software with
OCTEON processors gives ISVs and networking equipment manufacturers
a tested foundation on which they can now build a variety
of innovative services that require powerful deep packet
analysis and real time monitoring of key data, extracted
from high throughput IP flows. These services can be either
passive or intrusive over the network, and will empower
our partners to market solutions that actually control the
use and the behaviour of IP networks at the finest granular
level. In addition, they will no longer have to spend costly
time and resources on software and hardware integration,
which is key to gaining leadership in this fast growing
market”, says Thibaut Bechetoille, CEO of Qosmos.
About Qosmos
Established in 2000 by members of the prestigious LIP 6
Computer Research Laboratory, Paris, Qosmos provides technologies
and customized products that extract business-critical information
traveling over the unified IP network. Data analysis is
based on a unique patented Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
technology, capable of handling an ever-increasing number
of IP protocols, providing on-demand measurements and statistics
in response to evolving network usages. Qosmos targets network
manufacturers seeking to improve their products through
DPI, market survey analysts that measure digital content
flows and service providers that supervise SLAs. Qosmos
has concluded two rounds of financing from Sofinnova Partners
for a global amount of 5.2 millions Euros.
www.qosmos.com
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor processors that enable intelligent networking,
communications and security applications. Cavium Networks
offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to 10 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, CA with design team
locations in California, Massachusetts and India. For more
information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com.
Press Contacts Qosmos:
Agence Yucatan
Shirine Banjy
+ 33 1 53 63 27 31
sbanjy@yucatan.tm.fr
Qosmos
Gautier Harmel
+ 33 1 78 09 14 55
harmel@qosmos.com
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Marketing Manager
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
