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Cavium Networks Expands Single Chip NITROX Soho Processor Family to Deliver Industry Leading Security Performance for Next Generation Wired and Wireless SOHO/SME Routers and Gateways

Posted on: Monday, 17 January 2005, 09:00 CST

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium Networks, the leader in content and security processing with the industry's broadest product line, today announced the availability of two new members of its NITROX Soho processor family. The CN220 and CN225 Secure Communication Processors (SCP) deliver industry leading SOHO/SME performance of up to 200Mbps of Routing, Firewall and VPN throughput with over 100 IKE or SSL transactions per second. Additionally, these new devices can support multiple security protocols such as: IPSec, SSL and CCMP simultaneously with no performance degradation. The new NITROX Soho CN220 and CN225 are software and footprint compatible with existing family members enabling excellent portability and scalability.

SOHO and SME router and gateway performance requirements are rapidly increasing with the deployment of next generation technologies such as wireless 802.11n, FTTH, Broadband Ethernet and VDSL. Additionally, users are demanding full line-rate VPN/Firewall security with support for multiple protocols such as IPSec, CCMP and easy to use SSL VPN technology at mass-market price points.

None of the current processors in this mass-market segment support line rate packet and security performance for these new technologies and neither do they support hardware acceleration for user authentication algorithms such as RSA and DH which results in a marked drop off in throughput with additional VPN users.

The NITROX Soho SCP Solution

NITROX Soho is an industry leading Secure Communication Processor family with the best performance, lowest solution cost and unmatched scalability for SOHO/SME applications. NITROX Soho Processor family includes five different hardware and software compatible CN2XX processors in 166MHz or 200MHz versions that deliver a range of price, performance and interface options. The product family integrates a MIPS32(TM) 4Km Processor with 16KB I-Cache and 16KB D-Cache, 16KB scratchpad and a 32 bit SDRAM main memory interface.

The new CN22X products integrate two powerful security acceleration engines, with full packet and protocol processing offload, to the existing NITROX Soho processor family. This frees up the CPU for other applications and enables support of up to 200Mbps of all standard encryption and hashing algorithms such as DES, 3DES, 256 bit AES and HMAC MD5/SHA1 along with up to 900 RSA 1024bit exponent or 1550 Diffie-Hellman 180bit exponent operations per second.

The NITROX Soho Secure Communication Processors provide a wide range of networking I/Os on-chip including three 10/100 Ethernet MACs, 32bit/33 MHz PCI, UARTs, GPIOs, timers and serial buses for optimal system integration. A complete Software Development Kit is available with evaluation boards, software and drivers, Linux and VxWorks OS support and a broad range of third-party software applications.

"By adding security engines from its award winning NITROX Security Processors to the NITROX Soho communications processors, Cavium Networks has created a new series of high-performance, low-cost chips for network gateways," said Tom R. Halfhill, senior analyst for In-Stat's Microprocessor Report. "The new processors are footprint and software-compatible with the existing processors, providing a clear migration path for customers. The security engine from the NITROX family that has been integrated into these products won our MPR Analysts' Choice Award for Best Security Processor in 2002."

Pricing and Availability

Production pricing for the NITROX Soho CN22X starts at under $20 for 10K unit quantities. The NITROX SOHO CN22X evaluation platforms and samples are available immediately.

"The current generation of NITROX Soho products have met with an excellent reception due their solid performance and retail friendly price points." said Rajiv Khemani, Vice President of Marketing at Cavium Networks. "The new CN22X products were designed to meet the increasing demand for higher performance and multi-protocol support at industry leading price points."

About Cavium Networks

Cavium Networks is a worldwide leader in security, network services and content processing semiconductor solutions. Cavium Networks' award-winning NITROX and MIPS64-based OCTEON families of processors and accelerator boards offer flexible, scalable and highly-integrated solutions delivering 50Mbps to 10Gbps performance. The company's products are integrated into a wide range of networking equipment that include routers, gateways, network appliances, content switches, wireless LAN access/aggregation points, servers and storage networking devices. Cavium Networks is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, CA with development centers in Marlboro, MA and Hyderabad, India. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/ .

NOTE: OCTEON(TM) and NITROX(TM) are trademarks of Cavium Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product photos and datasheets are available upon request.

Cavium Networks, Inc.

CONTACT: Rajneesh Gaur of Cavium Networks, +1-408-844-8420, orrajneesh.gaur@caviumnetworks.com

Web site: http://www.cavium.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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