NetLogic Microsystems has unveiled a new networking offering capable of concurrently processing advanced Layers 2 – 7 functions at 40Gbps wire-speed. The company said the new NLX321103A offering enables the simultaneous and deterministic processing of complex networking functions.
The complex networking functions include deep packet content inspection, application-aware switching and routing, intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-virus/malware, network service management, packet ordering, parsing, IPv6/IPv4 forwarding, classification, IPSec/SSL encryption, ACL security, compression/decompression and quality-of-service (QoS), according to NetLogic.
In addition, the 40Gbps NLX321103A offering enables complex networking functions to perform L2 – L7 packet processing on every packet of traffic with minimal network latency under a wide variety of Internet traffic scenarios.
The new networking offering incorporates 32 NXCPUs from its XLP multi-core, multi-threaded processor family, along with 128 knowledge-based processing engines; 196 Intelligent Fabric for Automata (IFA) engines from its NETL7 processor family and over 40 fully-autonomous programmable processing engines.
Chris Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems, said: "Our new L2 – L7 NLX321103A solution is a game changer for the industry as it provides customers with the unprecedented ability to develop a new class of highly differentiated networking systems that deliver deterministic line-rate throughput while supporting L2 – L7 functionality."
Key element of the new offering is XLP multi-core, multi-threaded processor, which is powered by 32 NXCPUs that operate at up to 2.0GHz and are based on a superscalar engine with out-of-order execution capabilities to deliver data plane and control plane performance, and the ability to support billions of in-flight messages and packet descriptors.
The XLP cores are quad-threaded to effectively minimise bottlenecks and memory latencies that are inherent in network data-plane processing applications, according to NetLogic.
The company claims that the NLX321103A offerings requires no external glue-logic for connection among the processors and is supported by a unified software platform to accelerate customer adoption of this breakthrough capability.
The resulting wire-speed Layer 2 – 7 functionality will fundamentally change network architectures by allowing full Layer 7 packet processing without introducing a bottleneck that slows down Internet traffic.
The company said that NLX321103A solution is expected to sample in the third quarter of 2010.
