F5 Networks' FirePass(R) SSL VPN Product Achieves Industry's
Highest FIPS 140-2 Performance With Cavium Networks' FIPS Accelerator Cards
NITROX XL NFB Accelerator Card Family Delivers FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and 3
Compliant SSL and IPsec Solutions for SSL VPNs, L4+ Switches and Application-
Aware Gateways
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cavium Networks, the
leader in content and security processing with the industry's broadest product
line, today announced that F5 Networks Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) has introduced a new
member of its FirePass SSL VPN product line that incorporates the Cavium
Networks NITROX XL NFB FIPS 140-2 Acceleration Board. The FirePass product line
is an industry leading family of products that provide ubiquitous VPN
connectivity to employees, customers and partners of organizations using SSL
encryption and Web browser technology. The FirePass 4100 product supports FIPS
(Federal Information Processing Support) SSL encryption that is essential for
government and financial networks. The NITROX XL NFB Acceleration Cards have
been integrated into F5's FirePass 4100 product. With the industry leading FIPS
SSL encryption performance enabled by Cavium Networks, government and financial
networks will enjoy security at performance levels previously available only in
non-FIPS enterprise networking products. For more information on FirePass,
please visit the F5 Networks website at:
http://www.f5.com/f5products/products/FirePass/ "Cavium Networks provided us with a market leading technology that enabled us
to offer new data and key protection capabilities to Government and Financial
networks with the FirePass Family," said Igor Plotnikov, VP of Engineering at
F5 Networks. "Additionally, the similarity between the Cavium Networks' FIPS
and non-FIPS software interfaces enabled us to eliminate duplication in our
product development efforts for the enterprise, government and financial market
segments." Cavium Networks' NITROX FIPS 140-2 Acceleration Card brings together the
unmatched performance of Cavium Networks' NITROX security processors, and the
trusted strength and security of the FIPS 140-2 standard in a complete high-
security hardware and software system. The resulting board implements a tight
FIPS140-2 level 3 cryptographic boundary around the board's card-edge. The
Accelerator Card comes complete with a rich, full-featured set of software
drivers, utilities, and reference application software, all delivered in C
source code. Together with a complete software development kit, it
significantly reduces the cost, complexity, and time to develop products
targeted at high-value, high-security government, financial and healthcare
applications. The NITROX XL NFB family includes three cards ranging in
performance from 3500 to 10000 RSA OPS and up to 500 Mbps bulk encryption
performance. The cards have successfully completed FIPS Laboratory compliance
testing and are expected to be NIST certified by Q1 '05.
"Cavium Networks has already enabled fast, robust and feature-rich security in
a variety of enterprise and service provider applications," said Rajiv Khemani,
VP of Marketing at Cavium Networks. "Typically, security products for
government and financial markets have had limited performance and high costs. With the deployment of the NITROX XL NFB Acceleration Cards in the F5 FirePass
4100 product, we are extending the compelling features and benefits of our
product line to government, financial and healthcare applications." About F5 Networks F5 enables organizations to successfully deliver business-critical applications
and gives them the greatest level of agility to stay ahead of growing business
demands. As the pioneer and global leader in Application Traffic Management, F5
continues to lead the industry by driving more intelligence into the network to
deliver advanced application agility. F5 products ensure the secure and
optimized delivery of applications to any user -- anywhere. Through its
flexible and cohesive architecture, F5 delivers unmatched value by dramatically
improving the way organizations serve their employees, customers and
constituents, while lowering operational costs. Over 6,000 organizations and
service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their businesses running. The
company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For
more information go to http://www.f5.com/ .
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/ 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. All rights reserved. http://www.f5.com DATASOURCE: Cavium Networks CONTACT: Rajneesh Gaur, Cavium Networks, +1-408-844-8420 ext. 212, Web site: http://www.cavium.com/ http://www.f5.com/f5products/products/FirePass
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