CHARLOTTESVILLE, JULY 27, 2010 – GE Intelligent
Platforms today announced the WANic™ 6354 intelligent
high performance packet processor designed for demanding
high volume IP network applications. Based on the latest
multi-core Cavium OCTEON II CN6335-AAP application accelerator
processor, its combination of advanced technologies allows
for higher speed networks and for the inclusion of advanced
security functionality in those networks. With its comprehensive
development package designed to minimize time-to-revenue,
the WANic 6354 delivers a sustainable competitive advantage
to customers.
Evaluation boards will be available in September.
The range of network applications in which the WANic 6354
IP packet processor can be deployed is extremely broad,
and includes session border control, secure access, network
address translation (NAT), traffic management, firewall,
deep packet inspection (DPI) and lawful intercept, secure
IP communications, encryption, packet filters, and network
monitoring/testing.
“The rapid growth in search engines, cloud computing,
Internet-based retailing, Web 2.0, mobile devices, online
gaming and so on are driving network traffic at an unprecedented
rate,” said Rubin Dhillon, Global Director of Communications
Product Management at GE Intelligent Platforms. “Huge
server farms are becoming the norm. At the same time, concerns
about the security and integrity of online communication
are uppermost in many customers’ minds, as is the
need to manage available bandwidth to deliver optimum customer
service. The WANic 6354 packet processor is designed to
play a central role in these networks, providing a highly
cost-effective solution that offloads network processing
and enables maximum network throughput.”
“Beyond this,” continued Dhillon, “the
new generation of OCTEON processors deliver a high level
of power efficiency with new technology, so that products
like the WANic 6354 can make an important contribution to
energy savings through lower power consumption.”
The new OCTEON II processor delivers up to four times the
performance of its predecessor, and is designed to offer
more functionality, faster speeds and handle higher traffic
flows using the same or less power than its predecessors,
enabling the WANic 6354 packet processor to give customers
greater performance per watt and greater performance per
dollar. It allows applications to efficiently support greater
network traffic by offloading traffic processing, and enables
customers to enhance their products with network security,
encryption and compression support. The alternative would
see customers needing to add more general processor computing
in the form of server blades, appliances or rack-mount servers.
Offloading the traffic processing to the WANic 6354 therefore
provides a cost savings to many applications.
Support for IEEE 1588 and hardware timestamping are provided
by the WANic 6354 for Ethernet synchronization and packet
ordering. This is of particular significance for networks
in which voice and video are being transported, and to customers
involved in monitoring and evaluating Ethernet traffic as
it facilitates reporting flow/timing details for the network
being monitored.
The WANic 6354 supports high-speed communications via a
4-lane PCI Express™ Generation 2 bus interface to
the host. Four front panel line interface ports with SFP
connectors support IEEE 10/100/1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet
as well as short- and long-reach optical connectivity.
The 4 Gbits/second line-speed packet processing performance
for Layers 2-7 of the WANic 6354 is made possible via its
use of a number of advanced technologies. These include
its MIPS64 Gen 2 processing cores, the implementation of
high performance I/O bridging and queuing, its high speed
internal connectivity, and its advanced memory technologies:
the OCTEON II processor’s 2 MBytes of shared L2 cache
memory and up to 4 GBytes of high-speed DDR3 packet memory,
implemented using dual VLP Mini-RDIMM modules, makes a significant
contribution. 512 MBytes of DDR3 SDRAM is implemented for
regular expression pattern matching engine memory (HFA/DFA).
32 MBytes of SDRAM is available for use as Persistent Memory
in storing processor state information, and up to 16 GBytes
of eUSB Flash Disk for bulk memory storage is optionally
available.
For more information: www.ge-ip.com/ip_packet_processors
About GE Intelligent Platforms
GE Intelligent Platforms is an experienced, high-performance
technology company and a global provider of software, hardware,
services, and expertise in automation and embedded computing.
We offer a unique foundation of agile and reliable technology
providing customers a sustainable competitive advantage
in the industries they serve, including energy, water, consumer
packaged goods, government & defense, and telecommunications.
GE Intelligent Platforms is headquartered in Charlottesville,
VA. For more information, visit www.ge-ip.com.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing
for networking, communications and the digital home. Cavium
Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible
processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 40 Gbps
that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise,
data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service
provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors are supported
by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool
support, reference designs and other services. Cavium Networks
principal offices are in Mountain View, CA with design team
locations in California, Massachusetts, Taiwan and India.
For more information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com.
For additional information, contact:
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
Cavium Networks Contact:
Ian McMurray, GE Intelligent Platforms
Telephone: +44 (0) 1327 322821
Email: ian.mcmurray@ge.com
