Hitachi, Ltd., a global electronics company, reportedly has selected and deployed Cavium Networks’ NITROX PX security adapters in the recently introduced BladeSymphony 320 Server family to deliver record crypto performance.

 

Hitachi (News - Alert) said its BladeSymphony 320 is a highly integrated blade server system used in data centers and enterprises for secure Internet applications.

 

“Cavium Networks’ NITROX Security Processor (News - Alert) is the defacto standard for hardware acceleration of secure socket layer (SSL) processing. By combining the high performance of NITROX with our BladeSymphony server load balancer blade, we can provide unprecedented security performance with extremely low-power to our customers,” said Akio Yamamoto, division president, enterprise server division, Hitachi, Ltd., in a statement.

 

Cavium officials said that NITROX Security Processor product line includes four families of security processors including NITROX, NITROX Lite, NITROX II and NITROX PX.

 

These families span in performance from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps of IPsec, SSL WLAN security and 1K to 40K RSA (News - Alert) OPS.

 

Officials said that these products provide a high degree of flexibility, hardware scalability and software compatibility.

 

“Cavium Networks is the market leader for Security Processors. Our NITROX Security Processor line accelerates cryptographic processing in market leading VPN and L4+ Switching equipment from all major Tier 1 vendors worldwide,” said Rajneesh Gaur, senior director in the networking and communications division at Cavium Networks.

 

Gaur said that the company is pleased to see Hitachi’s BladeSymphony 320 effectively utilize the performance and features of the NITROX PX security processor family, to deliver a world-class server.

 

Cavium Networks is a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, storage, wireless, video and security applications.

 

Back in September Aricent, a technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, had announced Long Term Evolution Evolved Packet Core (EPC) development collaboration with Cavium Networks.

 

Through this collaboration, the companies will offer pre-optimized, performance-enhanced and highly-scalable EPC Serving Gateway (News - Alert) (SGW), PDN Gateway (PGW) and Mobility Management Entity (MME) ready-to-use software frameworks for Cavium’s OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processor family.

 

This joint effort creates significant technology synergies, offering LTE (News - Alert) equipment manufacturers a high-performance, high-capacity solution for their EPC platforms, while simultaneously reducing time to market, risk and cost.