10GbE Intelligent Network Adapters

10GbE Intelligent Network Adapters boost Packet-processing, Compression, Security, iSCSI & FCoE performance by up to 15x

Cavium Networks latest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Intelligent Network Adapters (INA) fully offload secure network services, compression, iSCSI and FCoE functionality from the host CPU to deliver industry leading performance up to 10 Gbps in Appliances, Blade Servers and Storage Systems.

Based on Cavium’s OCTEON Plus CN58XX and CN56XX processors, the Cavium 10 GbE Intelligent Network Adapter family support fibre and copper interfaces in a single PCI-Express or PCI-X slot form factor and comprises two distinct product lines: 

PCI-X 10GbE Adapters
Cavium’s PCI-X 10GbE Adapters are available in a full-height, full-length, single-slot 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X form factor. These adapters support the OCTEON Plus CN58XX processors with up to 16 MIPS64 cores, and include integrated hardware acceleration for TCP, encryption/decryption, compression/decompression, and pattern matching. These adapters also provide a powerful set of features, including:
• Up to four ECC-protected Mini-DIMM slots
• 1x 10 GbE SFP+ port enabling copper or fibre support
• SPI4.2 connector enabling multi-card cascading – providing a dedicated datapath between adjacent adapters without utilizing PCI-X bandwidth

PCI-Express 10GbE Adapters
Cavium’s PCI-Express 10GbE Adapters are available in a full-height, half-length, single-slot PCI Express form factor. All adapters support the OCTEON Plus CN56/57XX processors with up to 12 MIPS64 cores, and include integrated hardware acceleration for TCP, encryption/decryption, and compression/decompression. These adapters also provide a powerful set of features, including:
• Two ECC-protected Mini-DIMM slots
• 2x 10 GbE SFP+ ports enabling copper or fibre support

Cavium Intelligent Network Adapters enable industry leading performance for a broad range of applications including those greater than 200K iSCSI IOPS. The INAs provide TCP, SSL, and IPsec processing up to 20Gbps and Compression/Decompression performance of up to 10Gbps for GZIP, PKZIP and variant protocols with unmatched compression ratios. Compression ratios exceed 4:1 for typical web traffic, which are up to 2x that of alternative solutions. Additional features include RSA Performance of up to 20,000 RSA operations/s and IDS/IPS and Anti-Virus performance of up to 5 Gbps.

Software/dev-kit Support
The Cavium INA family is supported by a rich set of x86 host system software, including a portable PCI-X or PCI-Express driver with standard LINUX support and C-language APIs for offloading compression/decompression, SSL, TCP, iSCSI, pattern matching, and crypto processing.
For users looking to add proprietary processing features to the Cavium Adapter families a full software development kit is available. The Software Development Kit includes Linux, GNU tool-chain, GDB development environment and popular third party C/C++ tool-chain and development support. For data-plane applications a C-language thin executive is available to remove operating system processing overhead. Additionally, Cavium Networks provides APIs and production quality source code software toolkits for IPsec, SSL, TCP, Anti-Virus, and IDS/IPS stacks for customization. OCTEON is also supported by third-party standard operating systems from WindRiver® and MontaVista®.

Availability and Pricing
Samples for Cavium 10 GbE PCI-Express Intelligent Network Adapters are scheduled to be available this month. Samples for the Cavium 10 GbE PCI-X Adapters will be available in September.

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