Packet processor allows rapid communication

The WANic 5860 PCI-X card is designed for NEBS compliance to ensure safety and reliability while maintaining network integrity.

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released the WANic 5860 packet processor, which is suitable for applications demanding wire-speed communications.

The WANic 5860 card is designed to enable rapid application development using open, modular, highly available systems based on PCI-X platform architectures.

It is supported by GE Fanuc's growing ecosystem of third-party software vendors such as 6Wind.

"Demand for high-performance secure IP communications and multiGigabit packet processing continues to grow rapidly and the WANic 5860, with its next generation bandwidth, responds to that demand" said Rubin Dhillon, Global Director of Communications Product Management at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms.

The WANic 5860 PCI-X card delivers even greater throughput and higher bandwidth and complements the PCI Express form factor WANic 5434.

The card is designed for NEBS compliance to ensure safety and reliability while maintaining network integrity.

It is suitable for applications such as session border control, secure access (IPsec), network address translation (NAT), deep packet inspection (DPI), traffic management and firewalls.

Available with four 1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet ports configured with four 1000BaseT twisted pair copper SFPS or four 1000BaseSX ports configured with fibre SFPS, the WANic 5860 uses the power of the 600MHz Cavium Octeon Plus CN5860-NSP 16-core MIPS64-based processor to deliver up to 4Gbit/s line-speed packet processing for Layers 2-7.

To optimise application performance, the CN5860-NSP supports a dual-issue, five-stage pipeline and optimised latencies as well as auto instruction prefetching and advanced data prefetching features to minimise memory delays.

The WANic 5860 software implementation is a comprehensive development package designed to improve time-to-revenue.

It is optimised to simplify application integration for multicore processor development environments.

Firmware including a universal boot loader (U-Boot) and comprehensive power on self test (POST) is embedded in the hardware.

Also included are a Linux Support Package (LSP) and sample application code designed to exercise the WANic 5860.

The LSP includes a Linux operating system and user application diagnostics.

The supported operating system is Debian Linux.

Support for other operating systems is available upon request.

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