Search accelerator meets future Ethernet demands

Application-optimised network search accelerator has been selected by Bay Microsystems as the packet header processing solution of choice for its recently announced Chesapeake Network Processor.

IDT's application-optimised network search accelerator has been selected by Bay Microsystems as the packet header processing solution of choice for its recently announced Chesapeake Network Processor.

The IDT 75S10000A delivers an unprecedented search rate of one billion searches per second - an order of magnitude greater performance than previous generation solutions - facilitating Bay's support of enhanced triple play services and future 100G Ethernet networks.

The IDT network search accelerator is designed to cost-effectively enable high-performance, low-power packet processing for Bay Microsystems' fully programmable 40G line-rate network processor and traffic manager.

The first "fourth generation" network search solution commercially available, it enables enterprise, and carrier switch and router developers to create highly differentiated systems by accelerating and offloading critical search functions.

In turn, this provides more headroom for value-added services, such as variable QoS for video, voice, data and security, access control lists, secure data transactions, and billing applications.

The companies have been engaged since the initial specification phases of their respective devices in order to ensure maximum performance and seamless interoperability of the combined solution.

The new IDT network search accelerator works synergistically to offload classification and forwarding lookups, helping Chesapeake realise its industry-leading 40Gbit/s performance.

It allows Chesapeake to provide superior performance capable of delivering complex IPv6-based tunnelling services at line rate by providing a double datarate (DDR) interface, which maximises the available search bandwidth, coupled with a new and highly unique architecture optimised for complex IPv6 policy lookups.

In response to strict system-level availability and uptime requirements from leading service providers, the IDT 75S10000A implements enhanced error detection and correction to ensure the data integrity of the integrated TCAM array while providing the most reliable search solution in the market.

"When evaluating network search solutions, IDT was the only vendor capable of supporting Chesapeake's raw 125G performance", said Charles Gershman, Bay Microsystems' founder, President and CEO.

"Our ongoing collaboration with IDT will further advance broadband network system design while enabling our customers with highly integrated and optimised solutions for their converged voice, video, data and multimedia applications".

IDT offers a production-ready control plane library for the network search accelerator, which provides optimal table management for databases.

The network search accelerator also comes with additional development tools that facilitate easy programming and early testing, reducing cost, speeding time to market, and ultimately protecting the end-user software investment.

Bay Microsystems further enables designers with an integrated approach to building networking applications, incorporating IDT 75S10000A support within Chesapeake's integrated development environment (IDE) which is an integral part of Lighthouse, Bay's comprehensive development tool suite.

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