Benchmarks demonstrate processor superiority

Benchmark tests conducted by The Tolly Group demonstrate that ADI's new Fusiv-Vx 200 processor overwhelmingly outperforms comparable processors from Intel and Texas Instruments.

Benchmark tests conducted by The Tolly Group demonstrate that ADI's new Fusiv-Vx 200 processor overwhelmingly outperforms comparable processors from Intel and Texas Instruments.

Specifically, the Fusiv-Vx 200 achieved 31 times the small-packet mixed-system VPN (virtual private network) throughput of its closest competitors, delivering wire-speed Fast Ethernet routing, firewall and VPN throughput.

Based on ADI's ADSP-2100 core digital signal processing (DSP) technology and an innovative distributed processing architecture that delivers a level of wire-speed performance previously unattainable in the industry processor still has enough headroom left over to run application and signal processing.

As a result, the Fusiv-Vx processors are able to combine not only high-speed networking performance with full security capabilities but still have the bandwidth to run media processing-intensive applications.

This combination of strengths is an important enabler of next-generation converged IP services.

As broadband connections increasingly carry more than traditional data services technologies must offer high-performance data throughput while having sufficient processing power available for next-generation services.

The Tolly Group benchmarks demonstrate that ADI's Fusiv technology is well positioned to provide the kind of IP communications processing required for this new level of services.

"The ADI implementation delivered higher firewall and VPN throughput than even the purpose-built NetScreen device and dramatically higher throughput than the Intel or TI [Texas Instruments] implementations".

"Clearly, the ADI technology can deliver more than enough throughput for current and even next-generation broadband services".

"By offloading steady-state packet processing, the ADI main CPU stands ready for use in value-add functions like VoIP and video processing", said Kevin Tolly, President/CEO of The Tolly Group.

The Tolly Group report: "Analog Devices Fusiv-Vx200: competitive routing, firewall and VPN performance analysis", March 2004, is available free on The Tolly Group's website at www.tolly.com.

"These benchmarks, coming from the highly respected Tolly Group, confirm that our new Fusiv technology is capable of eliminating the performance barriers that have restricted the rapid and cost-effective growth of Internet services beyond existing email and Web browsing functions", said John Croteau, General Manager, Media Platforms and Services Group at Analog Devices.

"Fusiv technology will play an enabling role in the third wave of the Internet, which will be characterised by real-time transport in a secure framework for new applications such as interactive video and VoIP".

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