European representation for security coprocessors

Cavium Networks has signed a pan-European representative agreement with the UK based Spectrum Group of independent sales, marketing and operations organisations.

Cavium Networks has signed a pan-European representative agreement with the UK based Spectrum Group of independent sales, marketing and operations (ISMO) organisations.

The deal involves six Spectrum Group members and covers the Benelux countries, France, Italy, the Nordic countries, Portugal and Spain, and the UK and Ireland.

According to Spectrum Group Managing Director Nigel Watts, scalable, flexible, multiprotocol and high-performance security processing technology is critical for building next generation security enabled equipment requiring IPsec, SSL, wireless LAN and multiservice functionality: "Cavium Networks is at the forefront of the security revolution and I expect to see its technology ubiquitously deployed across the computing and networking infrastructure during this decade", said Watts.

"We are excited by the challenge of applying our ISMO expertise to ensure that Cavium Networks achieves its European target, and in playing a key role in the company's world-wide ambitions".

Cavium's flagship product is the Nitrox security macro processor, the world's first single-chip device built from the ground up to accelerate all cryptographic operations and SSL, IPsec and Wireless protocol processing.

Cavium realised its innovation in the minimum of silicon area, resulting in a high-performance/low-power-consuming solution with a price tag significantly lower than comparable ASIC implementations.

Cavium's Nitrox technology is also available integrated in a portfolio of high-performance SSL accelerator boards that enable networking OEMs and enterprise IT managers to quickly integrate high performance SSL into a wide variety of equipment such as web servers, SSL VPNs, server load balancers and web-services gateways for XML, D-sig and encryption.

Rajiv Khemani, VP Marketing, Cavium Networks, expressed his pleasure at joining forces with Spectrum: "Spectrum's ISMO business model has exhibited remarkable success in providing the European market with winning semiconductor and component solutions.

With Spectrum, Cavium looks forward to supplying leading security processing solutions to networking OEM customers in Europe".

Cavium's Nitrox processor accepts high-level software commands or macro commands for protocol processing in addition to basic cryptographic operations.

Use of macro commands reduces the bus traffic and processing load on the host system.

For example, the Nitrox 1120 running at 350MHz can process 10,000 SSL TPS depending on the record size over a standard 64bit, 66MHz PCIbus.

Depending on real-time traffic conditions, Nitrox adaptively allocates its processing power between session set up and bulk data encryption.

For example, the Nitrox 1340 can process over 40,000 SSL TPS or 5Gbit/s of bulk data encryption or any flexible combination of the two.

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