Netronome Systems, Inc.

NFE Acceleration Cards

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The Netronome Flow Engines [NFEs] are a family of acceleration cards that enables application acceleration, deep packet inspection and flow analysis in a highly scalable manner--addressing the needs of both developers and users of network appliances for significantly increased application performance and greater control over network traffic.

The NFE provides an open application programming interface for network and security appliances that require acceleration. The NFE allows appliance manufacturers to quickly improve the performance of existing products, accelerate the development of their next-generation applications and reduce overall development costs. The NFE enables network and security appliance vendors to focus development on their software applications, while simultaneously benefiting from hardware acceleration that significantly increases performance. In conjunction with the Netronome Flow Manager(TM) [NFM], the NFE allows network appliance vendors to increase their application performance and I/O throughput without requiring modification to existing applications or complicated programming of underlying acceleration hardware.

The NFE provides line-rate performance during flow processing and deep packet inspection, creating unmatched visibility and control of traffic at layers 2-7 for 1,000,000 simultaneous flows. NFE support for Netronome's Open Appliance(TM) Architecture enables network and security application vendors to quickly take advantage of these capabilities with their current Linux®-based applications on any standard IA/x86 design.

This unique combination of accelerated network performance, granular flow visibility, and reduced time-to-market makes the NFE an ideal solution for network appliances used for:
--Security and compliance;
--Intrusion detection and prevention;
--Unified threat management;
--Deep packet inspection;
--Web proxy and load balancing;
--LAN/WAN bandwidth optimization;
--Network test and measurement;
--Network service assurance;
--Carrier IT; and
--Government applications.

The Netronome NFE-i8000 PCI Express card contains an Intel® IXP2855 network processor, hardware cryptography support, TCAM, 768M RDRAM and 40Mb QDR SRAM. The card provides four 1Gbps SFP Ethernet ports and features a highly optimized communication path to the CPU(s) on the host motherboard.

Intel Processor Used:

• Intel® IXP28xx Network Processor

Standards Supported:

• PCI Express

Solutions Supported:

• Media Server
• Media/VoIP Gateway
• Medical
• Military/Aerospace
• Security
• Transportation
• VPN/Firewall/IDS

Operating Systems Supported:

• Linux*