Security processor: 40Gb/s throughput with simultaneous compression

Exar has added XR9200 coprocessor family to its family of security processors. The XR9200 targets applications for the data analytics, storage, and cloud security markets, which include Data Warehouses, Hadoop Clusters, Storage Arrays, Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), WAN Optimization Appliances, and Security Gateways. Exar says its new coprocessors provide leading-edge compression to remove or minimize costly I/O bottlenecks and enable maximum system throughput with minimum latency, while optimizing storage efficiency. XR9200's hardware-accelerated encryption and public key processing designed to support high transaction throughput and packet-per-second rate required by enterprise, cloud and web-based applications. The new family of coprocessors offloads computationally intensive compression and security algorithms from a host CPU and matches the performance of hundreds of enterprise class x86 CPU cores at much lower power and cost, claims Exar. XR9200 Coprocessor Features as provided by Exar: 40 gigabits/second of processing throughput with simultaneous compression, encryption and hashing Compression ratios comparable to Level 9 gzip 40,000 operations/second of RSA with 2048 bit keys PCI Express 3.0 host interface supporting 64 gigabits/sec of bandwidth with 8 lanes 40 gigabit/sec Interlaken interface supports external FPGA connection Class of Service...