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ADI Engineering Announces Reference Platform for New Intel IXP2350 Network Processor; ``Roadrunner'' Offers OEMs a Cost-Effective Single Board Computer With Gigabit Ethernet

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 12:00 CDT

ADI Engineering, Inc., a leading provider to OEMs of reference platforms, platform derivatives, and complete custom product solutions based on Intel(R) network processors, announced their new "Roadrunner" reference platform today at the Network Systems Design Conference in San Jose. Available in February 2005 for under $3,000, the Roadrunner platform based on the Intel(R) IXP23XX product line is optimized as a single-board reference design that enables cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet applications where an AdvancedTCA(R) platform is not required.

Qovia, one of ADI Engineering's customers, will be using ADI's expertise to build their next-generation communications equipment.

"Our customers depend on our products to manage their VoIP phone systems," said Eric Bear, VP of product management at Qovia, the leading developer of VoIP management software and appliances. "For Internet Telephony, management is critical for ensuring call quality, ease of operations and even emergency services. And with our upcoming management appliance aimed at large enterprise and carrier customers -- users that demand 99.999 percent reliability from their phones -- we needed processing power and high availability. That's why we plan to use the Intel(R) IXP2350 network processor as the core of our carrier class appliance. The combined experience of Intel and ADI Engineering will ensure carrier-class power and reliability from our new generation appliance."

Demo applications from third party providers, such as Parallogic, including IPv4/v6 routing, cryptography, and TCP/IP termination insure immediate customer validation of the Intel(R) IXP23XX product line with respect to features, function, and performance in actual end-user applications.

"We are excited to support the Intel(R) IXP2350 network processor and the Roadrunner platform by integrating our StriaEdge(TM) VPN Firewall Router, an integrated platform application intended for makers of communications equipment," said Safa Alkateb, President and CTO of Parallogic. "StriaEdge(TM) implements IP routing, stateful filtering, Network Address Translation (NAT), traffic shaping quality of service (QoS), IPSec encryption for virtual private networks (VPN), and wireless LAN (WLAN) encryption offload. Built upon the Intel(R) Internet Exchange Architecture software development kit, the Parallogic integrated application takes full advantage of the four data plane processors (microengines) and other hardware functions of the new Intel(R) IXP2350 network processor."

"We see a big market opportunity for the Intel(R) IXP2350 network processor and are pleased to support ADI's Roadrunner," stated David Stepner, Teja Technologies' president and CEO. "The combination of Roadrunner hardware and Teja NP software provides OEMs a powerful pre-integrated platform that gives developers the tools to customize and optimize the performance of their designs in the shortest amount of time."

"The new ADI reference design showcases the advantage of a complementary ecosystem for Intel(R) network processors," said Kevin D. Johnson, director, Intel Communications Alliance, Intel Corporation. "When combined with software and tools from other members of the Intel(R) Communications Alliance, the ADI single-board reference design reduces customers' cost, development risk and time-to-market while they design products and systems around the Intel(R) IXP23XX product line."

The Roadrunner platform includes an Intel(R) IXP2350 network processor at 900 MHz, up to 2GB microengine DDR RAM with ECC, 1GB control plane DDR RAM with ECC, 16 MB microengine QDR SRAM, 64 MB of Intel(R) StrataFlash, two on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports, one 10/100 Fast Ethernet port, two USB 2.0 host ports, and an ATA133 hard disk controller. Expandability is provided by the two MiniPCI slots for Wi-Fi and WiMAX radios, one PCI 64-bit 66 MHz card slot for security coprocessors and other peripherals, one Compact Flash socket to support the Application-in-a-Flash program, and one Intel(R) IXA Media Interface Mezzanine (MIM) slot to accommodate off-the-shelf media interface cards from Intel including OC3, OC12, T1/EI, Quad Gigabit Ethernet, and others. Roadrunner fits into a standard 1U chassis.

List price for Roadrunner in single piece quantities is $2,995. Custom variants are supported as required to customer specification. Development kits can be purchased immediately, though shipments to customers will not commence until February 2005.

About ADI Engineering Inc.

ADI Engineering Inc. is a leading provider of reference platforms, platform derivatives, and complete custom product solutions based on Intel(R) network processors and Intel XScale(R) technology. Founded in 1990, ADI Engineering maintains full design, prototyping, and production manufacturing services that ensure OEMs get their Intel-based products to market quickly and with low risk. Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA, ADI Engineering is a privately held company and is an Associate Member with the Intel Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers (http://intel.com/go/ica). For more information about ADI Engineering, please visit http://www.adiengineering.com or call (434) 978-2888.

About Qovia

Qovia's Voice over IP Telephony monitoring and management technologies and products offer reliability, emergency services, quality, operations and security for enterprise Internet Telephony systems. The Qovia(TM) VoIP Monitoring and Management System (VMMS), consists of a series of software tools that significantly ease management, monitoring and maintenance of Internet phone systems, protect data assets and increase the productivity of IT investments. Qovia was founded in June 2002 and has received $16.1M in venture funding from Canaan Partners, Nokia Venture Partners; Anthem Capital; and the State of Maryland. The company has earned several key industry awards, including Internet Telephony Magazine 'Product of the Year'; a Maryland Tech Council 'IT Product of the Year'; and Best of Show from among 450 companies exhibiting at the Federal Office Systems Exposition (FOSE). Qovia's products fill a key void in VoIP. http://www.qovia.com.

About Parallogic

Parallogic Corporation is a privately held company that specializes in developing network processor software and applications that have been optimized for off-the-shelf NPU based boards and development platforms. Parallogic augments its PLATFORM APPLICATION software products with professional services, technical support for users of the Intel(R) Internet Exchange Architecture software development kit (Intel(R) IXA SDK), and help with software integration. Parallogic is a General Member with the Intel(R) Communications Alliance. For more information about Parallogic, please visit us at http://www.parallogic.com or call (703) 435-2004.

About Teja

Teja Technologies, located in San Jose, CA, is a privately held software company developing the industry's first advanced network processor software development platform. Teja's NP software will save systems vendors money and speed their products' time-to-market, providing a significant competitive advantage in today's fast moving networking markets. Teja, an Associate Member with the Intel(R) Communications Alliance, is backed by world-class investors including Blueprint Ventures, Intel Communications Fund, Mayfield, RRE Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Viventures. For additional information on Teja Technologies, visit the company's website at www.teja.com (http://www.teja.com).

Intel and Intel XScale are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

Source: Business Wire

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