Cavium Networks Delivers Unmatched Integration And Functionality With New Inline Security Processor Family

Cavium Networks, a worldwide leader in security, network services, and embedded processor solutions, today introduced the NITROX II CN2800 Security Processor Family, the world's fastest standalone security processors with the highest level of integration and functionality. The inline NITROX II CN2800 Family integrates a general purpose processor for security control plane processing, supports SHA-2 and AES-GCM (Galois Counter Mode) algorithms, and includes integrated Gigabit Ethernet interfaces at up to 10 Gbps. The NITROX II CN2800 family is software compatible with the existing NITROX II security processors. It extends Cavium Networks' market leadership in the performance, features and flexibility of security processor offerings with the newest algorithms and an even broader set of interfaces. The combination of high integration, new algorithms and performance is ideally suited for next generation multi-gigabit VPN/Firewall Equipment, L4+ Switches, Wireless LAN Switches and Storage Security Appliances. Cavium Networks will present the CN2800 security processor family this week at the Network Systems Design Conference, being held in San Jose, California.

Requirements for high level of integration at increasing performance levels for security processors are going up as density of networking equipment increases in data centers and Telco companies. Additionally, new security algorithm requirements are emerging for equipment to be deployed in the marketplace by 2008. These include SHA-2 and AES-GCM. AES-GCM is expected to be the encryption algorithm widely used for IPsec VPN applications as it provides an efficient implementation for confidentiality and data origin authenticity together with and support for data speeds over 10Gbps. The NITROX II CN2800 offers unsurpassed hardware acceleration capability for these new algorithms. Chassis-based routers and switches will significantly benefit from the power efficiency, cost savings and performance benefit this family affords.

"Cavium Networks' NITROX family has become the most widely deployed security processor family for IPsec and SSL applications in networking equipment worldwide," said Rajneesh Gaur, Director of Product Marketing at Cavium Networks. "The NITROX II CN2800 Security Processor Family highlights our commitment to the security processing market and further enhances our leadership position while meeting critical customer requirements."

The NITROX II CN2800 Security Processor Family supports both inline and look-aside system architectures in a fully integrated standalone chip. It has two SPI-4.2 interfaces to support 10 Gbps I/O or eight integrated Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The family has Security Protocol Processors that can process a variety of protocols including IPsec, SSL and WLAN security and multi-protocol at the same time. It also has a general purpose CPU that provides capability to process security control plane protocols such as IKEv1/v2. The CN2800 processor family includes support for a variety of symmetric, asymmetric and hashing protocols including SHA2-224, SHA2-256, SHA2-384, SHA2-512 and AES variants including GCM. This is the only product line in the marketplace to offer SHA2-384 and SHA2-512 algorithms. Other key features include IP packet fragmentation and re-assembly support and NAT traversal over UDP. Both IPv4 and IPv6 support are included. The CN2800 Security Processor family provides a seamless migration path for current NITROX II Security Processor customers as it has the same software APIs. The Software Development Kit (SDK) for the chip includes a software API along with drivers for Linux and reference applications.

Availability and Pricing
Samples for the NITROX II CN2800 Security Processor Family will be available starting Q1 '06. Pricing will range from $250 to $725 for quantities greater than 5K. The development kit for the processor will be available in Q1 '06 as well.

About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a world leader in security, network services and embedded 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 Mountain View, CA with development centers in Marlboro, MA and Hyderabad, India. For more information, please visit: www.caviumnetworks.com.