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Networking

The performance, power efficiency, high density and programmability of the TILE-Gx™ processor gives networking equipment vendors the flexibility to integrate more services at a higher bandwidth without sacrificing the power budget and time to market.

Packet Processing

Networking applications involve packet processing functions split across the control plane and data plane. As much as 90% of the workload of these applications requires packet processing in the data plane. Tilera® processors provide excellent packet processing performance utilizing the on-chip packet acceleration mPIPE (manycore Programmable Intelligent Packet Engine) for classification, header manipulation, load balancing and buffer management while leaving the majority of the cores available for value add application processing.

A TILE-Gx36 processor delivers:

  • 40Gbps of L2 bridging
  • 40Gbps of IP forwarding or routing with/without NAT
  • 40 Gbps Flow/Policy-based routing

Integrated Security

Network security is evolving to serve the increasing requirement for defense against more complex threats. At the same time, flexible implementations are required to accommodate the dynamic nature of enterprise networks. Vendors are adding more comprehensive services to meet their customers’ expanding needs, including:

  • IPsec and SSL VPN,
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS)
  • Anti-Virus (AV) protection
  • DDoS Protection
  • Other Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies

As more services and packet inspection techniques get integrated, the processing challenges increase. Security vendors need processors that provide the performance for complex traffic inspection and the flexibility to accommodate the dynamic nature of security and ever-changing threats. Tilera® processors offer customers the highest performance processors to implement complex security services with L4-L7 deep packet inspection. With 16 to 100 cores of general-purpose computing power and on-chip 40Gb of bulk crypto processing, Tile processors can perform a wide range of security services on network traffic at wire-speed.

Standalone Appliance Block Diagram

Standalone Appliance Block Diagram
The TILE-Gx36 processor provides a complete solution for security appliances.

PCIe Offload Block Diagram

PCIe Offload Block Diagram

Feature Highlights

  • Up to 40 Gbps of stateful packet inspection firewall
  • Up to 35 Gbps of IPsec ESP in 8 tiles or less
  • Under 30 watts of processor power consumption
  • Simple system design
  • One processor programmed in standard C/C++
  • Simple cooling solution
  • Standalone appliance or a PCIe offload card