GE Intelligent Platforms WANic 6354 high-performance packet processor

GE Intelligent Platforms has released the WANic 6354 intelligent high-performance packet processor designed for high-volume IP network applications.

Based on the latest multi-core Cavium Octeon II CN6335-AAP application acceleration processor, its combination of technologies allows for higher speed networks and includes security.

The range of network applications includes session border control, secure access, network address translation, traffic management, firewall, deep packet inspection and lawful intercept, secure IP communications, encryption, packet filters and network monitoring/testing.

The processor delivers up to four times the performance of its predecessor and offers more functionality, faster speeds and the ability to handle higher traffic flows using the same or less power than its predecessors.

It allows applications to support greater network traffic by offloading traffic processing, and enables users to enhance their products with network security, encryption and compression support in the form of server blades, appliances or rackmount servers.

Support for IEEE 1588 and hardware timestamping are provided for ethernet synchronisation and packet ordering.

The processor supports high-speed communications via a 4-lane PCI express Generation 2 bus interface to the host. Four front panel line interface ports with SFP connectors support IEEE 10/100/1000BaseT gigabit ethernet as well as short- and long-reach optical connectivity.

The 4 Gbps line-speed packet processing performance for layers 2-7 is made possible via its use of a number of technologies.

These include its MIPS64 Gen 2 processing cores, the implementation of high-performance I/O bridging and queuing, its high-speed internal connectivity and its memory. The processor’s 2 MB of shared 1.2 cache memory and up to 4 GB of high-speed DDR3 packet memory, implemented using dual VLP mini-RDIMM modules, makes a significant contribution. 512 MB of DDR3 SDRAM is implemented for regular expression pattern matching engine memory (HFA/DFA). 32 MB of SDRAM is available for use as persistent memory in storing processor state information, and up to 16 GB of eUSB flash disk for bulk memory storage is optionally available.