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NITROX® II

The NITROX II Security Processor targets in-line, multi-gigabit performance applications in the Enterprise Edge and Data Center market segments. The NITROX II custom designed processor provides lowest area, cost and power consumption when compared to ASIC based security chips. At the heart of NITROX II are multiple micro-programmed GigaCipher cores, which allow for future upgrades and flexibility in supporting all cryptographic operations and protocol layer functions. NITROX II also has highly flexible interfaces including SPI-4.2, SPI-3 and PCI-X. This family provides 2 Gbps to 10 Gbps of IPsec throughput and 10 - 40K RSA Ops.

NITROX II is the only in-line security processor that has the capability to process high-level IPsec and IKE, IPv6, SSL and Wireless LAN security protocol macro commands that dramatically offload the CPU or NPU to increase the total system throughput. The NITROX II SDK includes an evaluation board with modified KAME, Free S/WAN or OpenSSL stacks using Cavium Networks Network's TurboIPsec/SSL Macro APIs and software drivers for Linux, BSD and VxWorks.

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NITROX II IPsec Product Brief

NITROX II SSL Product Brief

Device	IPsec (i) SSL (s) MultiService (p) support	Interface	Control Interface or alternate data path	Performance
Device	IPsec (i) SSL (s) MultiService (p) support	Interface	Control Interface or alternate data path	Max RSA 1024-bit Exponent	Max DH 180-bit Exponent with 1024bit Mod	Inline full IPsec Processing inbound look- Storage, L2 handling etc.	Full SSL Record Throughput Mbps MD5
NITROX II - Inline Processor
CN2130*	i,s or p	1xSPI-3	PCI-X 64/133	10K	18K	3Gbps	3Gbps
CN2230	i,s or p	2xSPI-3		10K	18K	3Gbps	3Gbps
CN2240*	i,s or p	2xSPI-3		20K	36K	6Gbps	6Gbps
CN2330	i,s or p	1xSPI-3 and 1xSPI-4.2		10K	18K	3Gbps	3Gbps
CN2340*	i,s or p	1xSPI-3 and 1xSPI-4.2		20K	36K	6Gbps	6Gbps
CN2450*	i,s or p	1xSPI-4.2		30K	50K	10Gbps	10Gbps
CN2530	i,s or p	2xSPI-4.2		10K	18K	3Gbps	3Gbps
CN2560*	i,s or p	2xSPI-4.2		40K	60K	10Gbps	10Gbps

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