Product category: VMEbus Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Extreme Engineering Solutions | Subject: XPedite2000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 March 2004
Mezzanine care takes
over network security
The XPedite2000 is a PMC-format network security accelerator board powered by the award winning Cavium Networks Nitrox security macro processor
The XPedite2000 processes up to 2Gbit/s of IPSec VPN or SSL bulk encryption with up to 20,000 RSA operations per second to accelerate VPN tunnel or SSL session setups. XPedite2000 aids networking OEMs and enterprise end-users building IPSec VPNs, SSL VPNs, webservers, switches, routers, servers and wireless switches.
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"We're excited about XPedite2000 because it brings Cavium's highest performance security device into the embedded world of PMCs", states Bret Farnum, VP Sales of Extreme Engineering.
"Several early adopters have increased their system performance by an order of magnitude compared to previous solutions.
The PCI-X interface yields a big performance boost when coupled with baseboards like our XChange series of PowerPC cPCI blades", adds Farnum.
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XPedite2000 is the first PrPMC security accelerator module with a 64bit/133MHz PCI-X interface, accelerating 3DES, AES, SHA-1, MD5, RSA, DH cryptographic algorithms and IPsec, SSL, CCMP protocols used in VPN, web servers and wireless gateway applications.
XPedite2000 measures a standard 74 x 149mm, can be hosted on cPCI, VME or existing motherboards.
Optional SDRAM can be added to the XPedite2000 to store encryption keys on the accelerator board, increasing system performance system.
"We're excited to be working with X-ES on XPedite2000", said Jeff Twombly, VP Sales at Cavium.
"Bringing the performance of the CN1230 to a PMC form factor, X-ES fills an industry need for high-performance security accelerators from winning design service companies like X-ES".
The XPedite2000 is software compatible with all Cavium standard PCI, PCI-X accelerator boards.
Cavium's software support includes a rich, full-featured set of software drivers, utilities, a common API set and reference application software.
Microsoft Windows drivers, certified through Windows hardware quality labs, are also available for easy installation and acceleration of Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) performance.
Linux and FreeBSD drivers are provided to accelerate Apache Web server performance.
Driver software code is also provided in an operating-system independent format to easily port to other operating systems.
RSA's BSafe SSL-C toolkit software has been optimised for Cavium's SSL accelerator boards and is available from RSA security.
XPedite2000 is part of X-ES' "ship today" programme and available immediately.
Single quantity pricing for XPedite2000 starts at $1495, with OEM volume pricing below $1000.
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