Tarari to Ship First Multi-Core Content Processors
Tarari's T9000 Content Processors Offer Network Security and XML
OEMs/ODMs Greater Performance and Shorter Time to Market
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 13, 2006—
Tarari Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, today
introduced its new ASIC family of multi-core Tarari T9000 Content
Processors that combine high-end computing hardware with optimized
algorithms to deliver the first multi-core content processor on a
single chip. Tarari's "Content Processor" products are ASICs,
production boards, and embedded software components that are designed
to snap in to networking, appliance, blades, and server systems. OEMs
visiting this year's RSA(R) Conference in San Jose, February 14-16 are
encouraged to discuss their requirements at the Tarari booth #240.
The T9000 ASIC family features optimized versions of nine of the
most CPU-intensive algorithms found in the enterprise and include both
gigabit and multi-gigabit solutions. Tarari's product line, which
includes boards, software and now ASICs has already been selected by
major OEMs, ODMs and ISVs in the XML switch and appliance markets as
well as in network security markets such as: UTM (Unified Threat
Management), intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) and
Anti-Spam.
Any application that needs to scan, parse or filter data can also
benefit from T9000 Content Processors, which are ideally suited for
applications such as content-based routing (CBR) and switching,
application firewalls and security gateways, web acceleration,
application networking, content filtering, anti-virus, regulatory
compliance, database interfaces, and secure archiving.
"This is truly an unprecedented accomplishment! Tarari's T9000
ASIC family of Content Processors represent the industry's first
Content Processing silicon that incorporates the cores needed for line
speed Network Security and XML processing," said Randy Smerik,
President/CEO and co-Founder of Tarari, Inc. "Tarari's breakthrough
multi-core technology, with up to nine different cores on a single
ASIC, is a critical enabler of one of the dominant trends taking place
in the industry: the need to touch, inspect, and control the content
of packets and messages flowing across networks, and in and out of
servers."
"Performance and power consumption have become key limiting
factors in the evolution of many important network technologies," said
Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "By accelerating and
offloading CPU-intensive algorithms to Tarari T9000 Content
Processors, solution developers can obtain dramatic performance gains
while achieving significant design cost reductions through reduced
chip count, latency, power consumption, and complexity."
Optimized acceleration cores include:
-- Grammar processing (dual cores) for XML and other protocols
-- Regular Expression (RegEx) (dual cores)
-- Compression for Zip/Gzip/PKZip
-- Decompression for Zip/Gzip/PKZip
-- UTF 8 to UTF 16 character conversion
-- RSA Modular Exponentiation
-- Encryption/decryption (DES/3DES)
-- SHA-1 Hashing for signature calculations
-- True random number generator
Other T9000 family members include single grammar processors and
single RegEx cores designed to be used for lower-performance systems.
"With the maturity of Service-oriented Architecture (SOAs) and Web
Services technologies, notoriously inefficient XML processing will
soon consume more and more compute resources in every data center,"
said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. "Tarari's T9000
family of Content Processors provides developers with an important
technology for creating XML-based security without imposing
significant additional load on existing application servers and
middleware infrastructures."
"In the face of increasing traffic complexity and security
threats, our customers continue to demand greater performance and more
flexibility for the network solutions they build," said Elan Amir, CEO
of Bivio Networks. "By offering the Tarari T9000 with the Bivio family
of network appliances, we allow our customers to adapt their offerings
for a wider range of markets, while delivering uncompromising
performance and scalability."
Specifications:
Performance
Tarari T9000 Content Processors feature industry-leading single
chip performance:
-- Simultaneous evaluation of up to 50,000 POSIX 1003.2 regular
expressions
-- Simultaneous evaluation of regular expressions at up to 3.2
Gbps
-- Simultaneous evaluation of XML protocol flows at up to 2.5
Gbps
-- Compression/Decompression/Encryption/Decryption at up to 1
Gbps
-- Additional external agents that can be configured to allow
performance to scale to 10Gbps
-- Interfaces to an 8 Gbps 64 bit PCI-X bus
Power
Requiring only a mere 3-5 Watts of power, T9000 Content Processors
dramatically reduce the power consumption requirements of network and
server based security and XML/Web Services systems.
Agent Chaining
Tarari's acceleration cores are called "Agents." Tarari's unique
Agent-chaining allows the output of one Agent to then be processed by
another Agent, thus content processing can happen without re-crossing
the I/O bus. This is essential for high-bandwidth low-latency
architectures. Multiple operations such as decrypting an attachment,
decompressing it, and then scanning it for viruses can be achieved in
just one pass to Tarari's T9000 ASIC.
External Agents & Devices
The T9000 can function as a standalone solution or support
multiple external ASIC or FPGA-based content processing engines
utilizing reprogrammable parts from either Xilinx or Altera. Support
is also included for dual ZBT or Quad data rate RAM and up to 2GB of
external DDR RAM.
Operating System & Host Processor Support
Both Linux(R)32 bit and 64 bit are supported. Driver source code
is available to aid porting to other operating systems such as
Microsoft Windows XP(R), FreeBSD, VXworks and Solaris. Applications
stacks are available for Intel, MIPs and PowerPC based host
processors, leading to faster time to market.
Availability
Tarari T9000 Content Processor samples will be available in the
next 30 days.
About Tarari, Inc.
Tarari, Inc., the award-winning acceleration company headquartered
in San Diego, Calif., USA, designs and produces Tarari Content
Processors that accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex
algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security and Digital
Media environments. Tarari's product line includes boards, ASICs and
software acceleration components designed for network equipment,
appliance and server vendors as well as independent software vendors
and enterprises. Tarari is a privately held company with venture
backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley Venture
Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Miramar Venture
Partners, XMLFund, and Intel Capital. For more information, visit:
www.tarari.com, e-mail: info@tarari.com, or call (858) 385-5131.
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