California-based electronics company LSI has partnered with Network Traffic Monitoring and Management applications provider Vineyard Networks create a new application combining Vineyard’s deep packet inspection (DPI) software engine with the LSI Axxia processor with Virtual Pipeline technology to accelerate mobile and datacentre networks.
The new application will operators of data centre and mobile networks recognise applications on the network and prioritise traffic, said the company.
The new product identifies applications running on the network in real-time, allowing operators to prioritise important traffic. It also offloads application-recognition and monitoring from the host processor.
By offloading application recognition and monitoring to Vineyard’s Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) deep packet inspection software running on the LSI Axxia processor family, datacentres and mobile networks can detect applications such as social networking, file sharing and Web 2.0 applications in real-time without using the host processor.
It is fully field-upgradable with new signatures and reduces time to market by enabling manufacturers to add high-performance DPI technology to their x86-based server or appliance.
Vineyard Networks CEO Jason Richards said, "The integration of Vineyard’s next-generation DPI engine, NAVL, on the sophisticated hardware architecture of the Axxia family of products, provides one of the fastest and highest performance methods of adding deep application recognition and metadata extraction to a networking solution."
