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Vineyard Networks and Netronome announced a strategic partnership to provide a 40Gbps OEM Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solution for vendors building next-generation, application-aware networking applications. The solution combines Vineyard's Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) DPI engine and Netronome's Network Flow Processors to offer advanced networking functionality, high performance flow processing, application recognition and metadata extraction at line rate 40Gbps speeds with a follow on platform capable of performing DPI at 100Gbps.

This partnership will produce an integrated platform that is ideal for OEM vendors looking to build next-generation firewalls, traffic management gateways, WAN optimization solutions, as well as network analysis and monitoring devices for both enterprise and service provider deployments.

"We're very excited at the performance and functionality offered with the combination of Vineyard's DPI engine and Netronome's flow processing platforms," says Jason Richards, CEO, Vineyard Networks. "Netronome's flow processors enable our next-generation DPI engine to take full advantage of the latest Intel processors, pushing DPI and application recognition to 40Gbps and beyond!"

These incredible DPI throughputs are achieved by tightly integrating Vineyard's unparalleled application and protocol detection capabilities with Netronome's hardware-based packet processing, stateful flow analysis, and adaptive load balancing. This provides an application aware, x86-based solution to host applications requiring DPI scaling to 40Gbps. It offers the industry's highest performance DPI solution, without impairing network performance.

"Netronome and Vineyard have built a solution that provides best-in-class application identification, without sacrificing performance," said Jarrod Siket, Sr. VP Marketing, Netronome. "Network OEMs with Netronome flow processor-based designs can immediately benefit from Vineyard's SDK that provides real-time application layer classification of network traffic."

Vineyard will be demonstrating this integrated solution in booth #858 at Interop Las Vegas 2012, May 6-10, at Mandalay Bay.