Cavium Networks (News - Alert), a provider of semiconductor products, announced that ZyXEL, Internet solutions providers with wide range of network security solutions, has selected the Cavium Networks OCTEON Plus and OCTEON II processor technology.

The OCTEON Plus and OCTEON II processor technology will be leveraged across a broad range of ZyXEL’s Integrated Service Gateway (News - Alert) (ISG), and Next Generation Firewalls and UTM appliances (USG). ZyXEL’s ZyWALL technology deployed in these platforms protects more than 400,000 businesses globally.

“We are very pleased to work with Cavium Networks in deploying our highly innovative next generation Unified Security Gateway solutions,” said Alpha Chen, VP of ZyXEL Enterprise Solution Business Unit, in a statement.

OCTEON II processors integrate up to 32 deterministic, low-latency cnMIPS64 cores for up to 48GHz of 64 bit compute power in a single chip. For DPI and content processing applications, third generation DPI engines deliver throughput up to 40Gbps per chip independent of number of rules and number of flows, an essential capability not available in alternative solutions.

“Cavium’s OCTEON processors have delivered the performance and features that we had required to bring a very exciting line of security products to the market. We are looking forward to expanding our usage with OCTEON II technology on a range of new networking product lines for the enterprise,” Chen added.

“ZyXEL is a leading provider of security products and we are delighted to be selected by them for their next generation platforms. Our relationship with ZyXEL will enable world-class products for the global SMB and enterprise markets rapidly and address the unique demands for Deep Packet Inspection,” said Y.J. Kim, general manager, Infrastructure Processor (News - Alert) Group at Cavium Networks.

Recently, Cavium Networks launched a new line of video processors, called PureVu CNW66xx. The PureVu CNW66xx family is a line of system-on-chip (SoC) video processors capable of addressing the market demand for universal wireless display receivers. Cavium's new CNW66xx processors enable combination of flexibility, cost and performance.