High Performance Cryptographic Acceleration

Overview

With the SafeXcel 182-PCI Card accelerator card, system applications are relieved of the burden of processor-intensive crypto applications, which can drain system performance. This gives the host processor more free cycles to perform its main tasks, leaving room for additional features and tasks.

The SafeXcel 182-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 the acceleration of VPN performance in mid-to high-end network devices and appliances as a design focus, the SafeXcel 182-PCI Card provides powerful and efficient IPSec processing. By accelerating only the critical and processor-intensive security functions, it delivers high security and robust performance at the best price in the industry. The SafeXcel 182-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 182-PCI Card incorporates separate interfaces for data, control and security association (SA) database access, enabling fast packet processing, highly efficient control and SA management systems. It also incorporates convenient and common hardware interfaces, supporting PCI-X, SPI-3 (optional) and S/DRAM memory interface capabilities to ensure easy integration with the widest variety of network and host processors, such as IBM NP4GS3, 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 also supported; additional OS driver support is delivered on request.

Complete VPN Security Features
The SafeXcel 182-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 & Switches
• VPN Gateways
• Firewalls
• Server IPsec or SSL accelerator
• iSCSI Storage Security
• Workstation Security Module