SINGAPORE and SAN JOSE, Calif., July
21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a
leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless
networking, today unveiled NITROX V security processors &
adapters. The newest members of the market leading NITROX family
deliver unprecedented performance for security in the enterprise
and virtualized cloud data centers. The NITROX V security processor
family integrates up to 288 purpose-built security cores with high
performance compression engines and virtualization hardware with
PCI-Express Gen 3 and Interlaken interfaces. NITROX V family
fortifies Cavium's position in the security processor market as
this family provides 3- 10 times greater performance than
alternative solutions within the same power envelope. The NITROX
product line is the industry leading security processor family
designed into cloud data center servers and networking equipment,
enterprise and service provider equipment including servers,
Application Delivery Controllers, UTM Gateways WAN Optimization
Appliances, routers, and switches.
Market Dynamics for Data Center Security &
Compression
There are several trends driving the need for high performance
and new crypto and compression functionality in Data Centers.
Customer applications running in VMs in the virtualized cloud data
center need data traffic flowing to and from their VMs to be
encrypted. This east-west traffic flow drives high
performance symmetric encryption bandwidth requirements for
protocols such as IPsec. At the same time, asymmetric cryptographic
performance requirements are exploding as well driven by the need
for SaaS providers such as search engines, email services and
social networking services to encrypt all customer data they
receive over the internet using SSL and new crypto schemes such as
Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). Today most of the SSL transactions
use 2048 bit RSA key operations but given the massive growth in
mobile clients, the need for high bandwidth Elliptic Curve
Cryptography (ECC) is rapidly increasing. Another major trend
is the need for high performance data compression with excellent
compression ratios for data center traffic. This widespread
adoption of encryption (SSL or IPsec), new crypto schemes and
compression is significantly changing the performance and
functionality requirements in a data center and is driving the need
for a new security and compression processor.
The NITROX V Security Processor family with its unique
combination of performance, features and interfaces, provides an
excellent solution to the data center security and compression
challenges.
Introducing the NITROX V Security Processor Family
The NITROX V Security Processor family delivers unmatched SSL
performance with 120K RSA Ops/Sec and 300K P256 ECC Ops/sec and
bulk encryption performance of 100 Gbps for a variety of different
protocols, flexibility to support emerging algorithms and
protocols, latest IOs, virtualization features, compression
performance and very low power consumption, enabling Cavium's cloud
provider and OEM customers to deliver breakthrough next generation
solutions which address these critical requirements, in an
optimized, energy efficient manner. The single-chip NITROX V
processors do not require external memory enabling lower cost,
power and real-estate.
Feature Highlights
- Up to 288 RISC Security Cores – Support up to 100Gbps of
security performance simultaneously with 120K RSA Ops/sec for 2048
bit keys or 300K P256 ECC Multiply Ops/sec.
- Compression Engines - Enhanced Compression/decompression
acceleration – 100 Gbps. Support for GZIP, PKZIP, Inflate and
Deflate algorithms. Also includes support for LZS Compression that
is widely used for Storage applications.
- High bandwidth IO – Supports 100 Gbps of traffic.
PCI-Express Gen3 x8 and Interlaken x8 interfaces.
- Virtualization support – Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV)
feature with up to 256 Virtual Function support.
- Latest security features – Supports a wide variety of protocols
including IPsec, SSL, TLS 1.x, DTLS and ECC Suite B. Also supports
a wide variety of algorithms including several variants of AES,
3DES, SHA-2, SHA-3, RSA 2048, RSA 4096, RSA 8192, ECC
p256/p384/p521, Kasumi, ZUC and SNOW 3G.
Supporting Industry Quotes
"The increasing use of SSL and IPSec between clients and data
centers, as well as within cloud data centers, is driving extreme
performance requirements for encryption using 2,048-bit RSA keys
and ECC curves," said Bob Wheeler,
Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. "By delivering industry
leading performance and power efficiency, Cavium's NITROX V
processor family enables cloud service providers and
data-center/enterprise OEMs to meet these requirements while
optimizing equipment and operating costs."
"Cavium is the market leader in security processors with a
broad portfolio of products/IP and over a decade of operational
experience in security processes and protocols," said Rajneesh
Gaur, Vice President & General Manager at
Cavium. "The NITROX V Security processor family built
with this expertise addresses critical security feature and
performance requirements of our target customers."
"Citrix has successfully worked together with Cavium to offer
cutting edge security features for several generations of its
Netscaler family of products," said Steve
Shah, VP of Product Management at Citrix. "With the
price/performance benefits that NITROX V offers, Citrix can
significantly increase the security performance of its products in
a cost efficient manner to meet the needs of the Cloud Data Center
markets."
"Over the past decade, Radware and Cavium have worked
together to incorporate high performance SSL with NITROX Security
Processors for Radware's application delivery and load balancer
products," said Ben Carmi, vice
president of product management at Radware. "As Cavium
significantly increases the ECC performance with the NITROX V
family, both Radware and Cavium can help address the ever growing
ECC performance requirements in the Data Center."
"Cavium's NITROX Security Processors enable A10 Thunder
Application Delivery Controllers to deliver exceptionally fast SSL
processing speeds," said Raj Jalan, CTO at A10 Networks.
"A10's customers set the standard for security and privacy. With
the high performance that NITROX V offers—especially for Perfect
Forward Secrecy and ECC--A10 will be able to exceed our customers'
stringent security requirements in our next generation
platforms."
Availability
The NITROX V Security processor family availability is targeted
for Q3 2015.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data
center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications.
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise,
data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider
equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners
that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and
other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team
locations in California,
Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com
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