LSI Corporation (LSI), a US-based provider of silicon, systems and software technologies, has introduced four new families of Tarari Content and Security plug-and-play processor boards, 7900 series, 8600 series, 8800 series and 8900 series. The new solutions are designed to meet the deep packet inspection requirements of entry-level to high-performance networks. The 7900, 8800 and 8900 series will sample in June 2009 and the 8600 series will sample in July 2009.
Based on new Tarari T10 silicon and software architecture, these new solutions provide original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with the power and flexibility to cost-effectively address a broad array of network security requirements.
In addition to silicon-based, application-specific standard products and custom silicon, LSI now offers the widest range of form factor alternatives for deep content inspection in the industry. The new boards fit standard PCIe, mini-PCIe, mini-PCI and Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) form factors, enabling Tarari Content and Security Processor solutions to be easily integrated with existing network security, quality of service, content-based billing and bandwidth management applications.
The wide range of Tarari board solutions addresses the increasingly broad and critical performance requirements of security OEMs and telecom equipment providers alike, said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. By providing both ready-made plug-in boards and silicon alternatives, LSI enables OEMs to optimize each design for either minimum time to market or maximum integration across a range of form factors.
The new series of Tarari Content and Security Processor board solutions complements the previously announced 8300 series, which provides standard PCI Express connectivity at speeds from 250 Mb/s to 3 Gb/s. All Tarari Content Processor board and chip solutions employ a common set of regular expression rules and application programming interfaces. This enables a single engineering development effort to span an entire network product portfolio, resulting in reduced time to market and maximum return on investment.
LSI Tarari Content and Security Processor solutions are targeted at OEM equipment lines that require a very broad range of performance – from hundreds of megabits to tens of gigabits per second, said Randy Smerik, senior vice president, Network Components Division, LSI. By leveraging our in-depth experience with high-speed processor technology as well as system- and network-level expertise, LSI delivers a complete portfolio of scalable, high-performance solutions that meet or exceed enterprise and service provider requirements for the deployment of next-generation, intelligent networks.
The LSI portfolio of Tarari Content Processor board solutions consist of the following new families:
7900 series: Supports the mini-PCI form factor and offers from 250 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s performance. All 7900 series boards use the same form factor, which facilitates base design reuse.
8600 series: Supports PCIe 8 lane Gen 1/Gen 2 and offers performance at 6, 12 or 20 Gb/s, while managing up to 8 million simultaneous network connections and processing up to one million regular expressions per second.
8800 series: Supports the AMC form factor for Advanced TCA (ATCA) and Micro TCA (µTCA) chassis. Offering performance at 3, 6 or 12 Gb/s, these boards can offload deep packet inspection on a wide range of multi-core processors including Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, Cavium Octeon and RMI XLS based blades.
8900 series: Supports mini-PCIe and is intended for applications from 250 Mb/s to 3 Gb/s where small size and low power are crucial. All 8900 series boards use the same form factor, which facilitates base design reuse.
LSI will be demonstrating content inspection technology in Booth #539 at the upcoming RSA Conference to be held from April 20 to April 23, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.