High Performance Cryptographic Acceleration

Overview

With the SafeXcel 180-PCI Card accelerator card, system applications are no longer burdened by processor-intensive crypto applications that can erode system performance. This gives the host processor more free cycles to perform its main tasks, leaving room for additional features and tasks.

The SafeXcel 180-PCI Card delivers complete IPSec processing, including full header and trailer handling for ESP and AH and provides acceleration for IKE handshaking, including the very processor-intensive public key computations.

Designed for the VPN Appliance Market and Optimized for IPSec
With a design focus on the acceleration of VPN performance in mid-to high-end network devices and appliances, the SafeXcel 180-PCI Card does just that – providing powerful and efficient IPSec processing. By accelerating only the critical and processor-intensive security functions, it delivers high security and high performance at the best price in the industry. The SafeXcel 180-PCI Card also accelerates the algorithms used to implement SSL VPNs, allowing vendors to create multi-functional security appliances with a single security co-processor.

Efficient Data, Control and Management Architecture
The SafeXcel 180-PCI Card incorporates separate interfaces for data, control and security association (SA) database access, enabling both fast packet processing and highly efficient control and SA management systems. It also incorporates convenient and common hardware interfaces, supporting PCI-X and S/DRAM memory interface capabilities to ensure easy integration with the widest variety of network and host processors, such as Intel IXP 2400 and Agere APP5xx.

Broad Platform Support
Full driver support is available immediately for development on most common operating systems, including Windows, Linux and VxWorks. A variety of other operating systems are already supported, and additional OS driver support is delivered on request.

Complete VPN Security Features
The SafeXcel 180-PCI Card incorporates a complete suite of security features in hardware, including:

• IPSec Security Protocols: ESP and AH
• Basic (bulk) encrypt/decrypt and hash operations
• SSL, TLS, and MPPE cryptographic operations

Applications

• Crypto Engine for internetworking devices
• Routers and switches
• VPN gateways
• Firewalls
• Server IPsec or SSL accelerator
• iSCSI storage security
• Workstation security module