NETWORKS

Cavium Networks has announced the launch of 10 GbE Intelligent Network Adapters with high performance suitable for secure network, storage and cloud computing.

Based on OCTEON II CN63XX processor family, the new Intelligent Network Adapter family addresses the emerging enterprise and data center requirements.

Supporting non-volatile memory “NVRAM” for data retention and failover in SSD deployments, the new Intelligent Network Adapter family delivers high performance networking, compression, storage features, DPI functionality with dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces in a single PCI Express Gen2 form factor.

Storage and network vendors can leverage the new Intelligent Network Adapters for a wide variety of applications such as data center security, cloud computing, network and storage data compression, deep packet inspection, WAN optimization, TCP/IP offload and iSCSI offload.

The CN63XX Intelligent Network Adapter family encompasses of three different products namely, CN63XX-NIC10E, a two-port 10Gigabit Ethernet adapter for inline acceleration and offload; CN63XX-NIC4E, a four-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter; and CN63XX-CPB, a coprocessor adapter for look-aside offload.

The CN63XX-NIC10E supports two high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports with PCI-Express Gen2.0. The SFP interfaces supports both Copper Twinax cables and Optical cables, said officials in a press release.

The CN63XX-NIC4E supports four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with PCI-Express Gen2.0. The CN63XX-CPB coprocessor adapter supports PCI-Express Gen2.0 interface and can also be deployed in look-aside mode for offloading compression, DPI, crypto, RAID and de-dup applications.

Officials with Cavium said that all the adapters have PCI-Express Gen2.0 connectivity and also have a DDR3 DIMM slot that can support up to 8GB of 1333 DDR3 memory and NVRAM capability. In addition, the new family of adapters also supports an optional 1GB of DDR3 HFA memory for Deep Packet Inspection.

Additionally, the CN63XX adapters have several Application Acceleration Engines that enable linear scaling of performance across multiple cores.

These adopters also include additional engines that include the third generation Deep Packet Inspection HFA engines, security acceleration including AES, RSA , ECC and SNOW 3G, TCP/IP packet processing, compression/decompression including LZS, data de-duplication, RAID processing, packet classification and quality of service.

In addition, the CN63XX Intelligent Network Adapter can run both simple executive and Linux applications and also supports the company’s shrink-wrapped binary drivers for Crypto, compression, TCP-Offload, iSCSI offload and other applications.

Officials with Cavium said that the CN63XX Intelligent Network Adapter family would be available in Q4, 2010. The production boards would be available by Q1, 2011.