Security processor with 288 purpose-built security cores for cloud

Cavium launched NITROX V security processor family with up to 288 purpose-built security cores featuring compression engines, virtualization hardware with PCI-Express Gen 3 and Interlaken interfaces. Cavium says NITROX V family provides 3 -10 times greater performance than alternative solutions within the same power envelope. The NITROX can be designed into cloud data center servers and networking equipment, enterprise and service provider equipment including servers, Application Delivery Controllers, UTM Gateways WAN Optimization Appliances, routers, and switches. Why is this security processors required? Cavium explains the below trends driving in crypto and compression functionality in Data Centers: "Customer applications running in VMs in the virtualized cloud data center need data traffic flowing to and from their VMs to be encrypted. This east-west traffic flow drives high performance symmetric encryption bandwidth requirements for protocols such as IPsec. At the same time, asymmetric cryptographic performance requirements are exploding as well driven by the need for SaaS providers such as search engines, email services and social networking services to encrypt all customer data they receive over the internet using SSL and new crypto schemes such as Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). Today most of the SSL transactions use 2048 bit RSA key operations but given the...