CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the WANic™ 6354 intelligent
high performance packet processor designed for demanding high volume IP
network applications. Based on the latest multi-core Cavium OCTEON IITM
CN6335-AAP application accelerator processor, its combination of
advanced technologies allows for higher speed networks and for the
inclusion of advanced security functionality in those networks. With its
comprehensive development package designed to minimize time-to-revenue,
the WANic 6354 delivers a sustainable competitive advantage to customers.
“the new generation of OCTEON
processors delivers a high level of power efficiency with new
technology, so that products like the WANic 6354 can make an important
contribution to energy savings through lower power consumption.”
Evaluation boards will be available in September.
The range of network applications in which the WANic 6354 IP
packet processor can be deployed is extremely broad, and includes
session border control, secure access, network address translation
NAT, traffic management, firewall, deep packet inspection DPI and
lawful intercept, secure IP communications, encryption, packet filters,
and network monitoring/testing.
“The rapid growth in search engines, cloud computing, Internet-based
retailing, Web 2.0, mobile devices, online gaming and so on are driving
network traffic at an unprecedented rate,” said Rubin Dhillon, Global
Director of Communications Product Management at GE Intelligent
Platforms. “Huge server farms are becoming the norm. At the same time,
concerns about the security and integrity of online communication are
uppermost in many customers’ minds, as is the need to manage available
bandwidth to deliver optimum customer service. The WANic 6354 packet
processor is designed to play a central role in these networks,
providing a highly cost-effective solution that offloads network
processing and enables maximum network throughput.”
“Beyond this,” continued Dhillon, “the new generation of OCTEON
processors delivers a high level of power efficiency with new
technology, so that products like the WANic 6354 can make an important
contribution to energy savings through lower power consumption.”
The new OCTEON
II processor delivers up to four times the performance of its
predecessor, and is designed to offer more functionality, faster speeds
and handle higher traffic flows using the same or less power than its
predecessors, enabling the WANic 6354 packet
processor to give customers greater performance per watt and greater
performance per dollar. It allows applications to efficiently support
greater network traffic by offloading traffic processing, and enables
customers to enhance their products with network security, encryption
and compression support. The alternative would see customers needing to
add more general processor computing in the form of server blades,
appliances or rack-mount servers. Offloading the traffic processing to
the WANic 6354 therefore provides a cost savings to many applications.
Support for IEEE 1588 and hardware timestamping are provided by the
WANic 6354 for Ethernet synchronization and packet ordering. This is of
particular significance for networks in which voice and video are being
transported, and to customers involved in monitoring and evaluating
Ethernet traffic as it facilitates reporting flow/timing details for the
network being monitored.
The WANic 6354 supports high-speed communications via a 4-lane PCI
Express™ Generation 2 bus interface to the host. Four front panel line
interface ports with SFP connectors support IEEE 10/100/1000BaseT
Gigabit Ethernet as well as short- and long-reach optical connectivity.
The 4 Gbits/second line-speed packet processing performance for Layers
2-7 of the WANic 6354 is made possible via its use of a number of
advanced technologies. These include its MIPS64 Gen 2 processing cores,
the implementation of high performance I/O bridging and queuing, its
high speed internal connectivity, and its advanced memory technologies:
the OCTEON II processor’s 2 MBytes of shared L2 cache memory and up to 4
GBytes of high-speed DDR3 packet memory, implemented using dual VLP
Mini-RDIMM modules, makes a significant contribution. 512 MBytes of DDR3
SDRAM is implemented for regular expression pattern matching engine
memory HFA/DFA. 32 MBytes of SDRAM is available for use as Persistent
Memory in storing processor state information, and up to 16 GBytes of
eUSB Flash Disk for bulk memory storage is optionally available.
For more information: www.ge-ip.com/ip_packet_processors
About GE Intelligent Platforms
GE Intelligent Platforms is an experienced, high-performance technology
company and a global provider of software, hardware, services, and
expertise in automation and embedded computing. We offer a unique
foundation of agile and reliable technology providing customers a
sustainable competitive advantage in the industries they serve,
including energy, water, consumer packaged goods, government & defense,
and telecommunications. GE Intelligent Platforms is headquartered in
Charlottesville, VA. For more information, visit www.ge-ip.com.
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