Simplified Acceleration for Network and Security Appliances
The Netronome Flow Engine (NFE) family of multi-gigabit PCIe interface cards enables the acceleration of network and security applications in a highly scalable manner. Featuring high-performance packet processing delivered from multiple microengine cores, the NFEs utilize several techniques to improve network I/O workloads, including deep packet inspection and classification, flow analysis, load-balancing flows to multiple CPU cores to parallelize application processing, and zero-copy libpcap library support.
Available in a range of price and performance configurations, the NFE family of accelerator cards is targeted for use in networking, security, deep packet inspection and test & measurement solutions. The PCI-Express cards are an ideal platform for vendors looking to accelerate network and application performance while reducing design time, complexity and cost.
Netronome Flow Engine NFE-i8000
Based on the IXP-2855 NPU with 16 microengine cores, the NFE-i8000 can improve server and appliance performance by providing line rate flow processing and deep packet inspection over four ports of Gigabit Ethernet. The NFE-i8000 can dramatically increase the performance of network security appliances with the most stringent applications in the most difficult environments.
Netronome Flow Engine Product Brief (PDF 196k)
Whitepaper: "Scaling Security Application Performance with Intel® QuickAssist Technology"
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Netronome’s 10Gbps Network Flow Processing Solution
Netronome’s flow processors and network acceleration products offer a highly programmable heterogeneous coprocessing environment that tightly couples the packet processing of the Netronome Flow Engine (NFE) microengine cores with the performance and ubiquity of general-purpose multicore (x86) systems. Bringing together the NFE acceleration hardware and Netronome Flow Manager (NFM) software, the solution scales to 10Gbps and provides improved server and appliance performance by delivering unmatched visibility and control of traffic at L2-L7 for over two million simultaneous flows.
Netronome's 10 Gbps Network Flow Processing Solution Product Brief (PDF 291k)
Whitepaper: "Scaling Network Application Performance"
Netronome SSL Inspector™ Transparent SSL Proxy
The Netronome SSL Inspector Appliance™ is the industry’s highest-performance transparent proxy for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) network communications, providing existing sniffing, recording and filtering security appliances with access to the decrypted plaintext of SSL-encrypted flows. This provides assurance that common threats, such as spam, spyware and viruses, data theft and other forms of cyber crime, are identified inside SSL flows that previously could not be examined by installed network and security appliances. Network appliance manufacturers now have a mechanism to provide their security applications with visibility into both SSL and non-SSL network traffic that also increase their application performance.
Netronome SSL Inspector Appliance Product Brief (PDF 315k)
Netronome SSL Inspector Software Development Kit (PDF 292k)
SSL Whitepaper: "Examining SSL-encrypted Communications"
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