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| Netronome Introduces High Performance Network Processor Card Netronome Systems has announced the availability of its first high-performance network co-processor card which is designed to significantly boost performance in IA/x86-based network and security applications. Designed for OEMs, the Netronome Flow Engine (NFE-i8000) can be used to increase performance of existing applications or as an easy-to-use development environment enabling users to quickly and efficiently develop high performance networking and security applications, speeding time to market by reducing development time for new or upgraded applications. Leveraging the Netronome developed PCI Express interface and "zero copy" drivers along with the Intel IXP2855 network processor and Intel IXCP210 cryptographic accelerator, the NFE-i8000 acts as a tightly integrated network co-processor for IA/x86 servers, supporting up to 4Gbps throughput with high performance encryption. Additional features include: * PCI Express x4 card with four active lanes; * Netronome-developed custom PCI Express interface ensuring high speed low latency transfers between IXP and IA, offering significantly higher speeds while dramatically reducing CPU overhead; * Support for multi-processor motherboards and multi-core processors; * 4x 1 Gigabit SFP ports for flexible connectivity. Additionally, the NFE-i8000 hardware cryptography acceleration includes an integrated symmetric crypto unit, integrated asymmetric public key co-processor and true random number generator. A mezzanine expansion connector provides support for future co-processors such as pattern matching etc. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |