Kontron and Cavium develop 40G carrier grade deep packet inspection system
The two have developed a 40Gbs AdvancedTCA DPI-hardened Kontron platform using Cavium’s OCTEON II 32 core processors and Cavium TurboDPI software. Possible implementations by equipment makers include network element designs for 4G LTE and carrier cloud-based services that require multi-purpose security of fixed and mobile streaming data.
Kontron has three generations of open standard hardware designed with Cavium multi-core packet processors and this latest project is a significant step towards providing large-scale, application-ready security DPI platforms that can trim a telecom equipment maker’s design cycle by up to half.
The blending of Kontron and Cavium hardware and software technologies enables the analysis of data streams to identify protocols and applications, inappropriate URLs, intrusion attempts or malware – all in a single pass at up to 1Tbps (1000 Gbps) performance per system. The 40G AdvancedTCA open modular platform is populated with Kontron AdvancedTCA Packet Processor Blades AT8242 used to both generate simulated traffic and perform various simultaneous traffic analyses. Each Kontron blade is designed with dual Cavium OCTEON II MIPS64 multi-core processors for a total of 64 cores and 80Gbps packet processor performance.
The TurboDPI software uses Cavium’s patent-pending Uniscan technology that is incorporated in all multi-core OCTEON II processors to simultaneously block malicious or inappropriate URLs, identify hundreds of widely used protocols and applications, help block thousands of different intrusion attempts and locate over a hundred thousand varieties of viruses and malware threats, all with just a single scan and with up to 40Gbps performance per processor.
The OCTEON II CN6880 multi-core MIPS64 processor includes 32 cnMIPS64 v2 cores, over 85 application acceleration engines, and innovative real-time Power Optimizer features, providing the highest compute and services performance of any standard ISA processor. With 20 configurable Gen2 SERDES, 4 DDR3 controllers, a 4MB L2 Cache, and complete application acceleration, including packet processing, Encryption/Decryption, Deep Packet Inspection (RegEx), Compression/decompression, De-duplication, RAID, and multi-core scaling, the CN6860 offers the highest compute for demanding AdvancedTCA applications.
The system will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress at the end of the month.
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