Cavium Networks
www.cavium.com

Product Categories
Security

Company Description
Cavium Networks is a semiconductor company that is delivering the industry’s largest family of network security processors. Cavium’s award winning NITROX family of security processors are single chip solutions that deliver 50Mbps to 10Gbps of encryption bandwidth with 1K to 40K RSA/DH operations per second. Cavium’s highly integrated, feature rich NITROX families of Security Macro Processors deliver unprecedented performance in wired and wireless IPsec based network security applications and SSL based secure e-Business while significantly reducing the cost and complexity of deployment. Cavium Networks is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, CA with an IC design center in Marlboro, MA.

Products & Solutions

Cavium’s NITROX Family of Security Processors is the broadest and fastest family of security processors on the market today. It consists of over 20 products, ranging in performance from 50Mbps to 10Gbps and accelerates IPsec, SSL, WLAN-security and Multi-service applications. Cavium’s drivers and APIs have been integrated to work with MontaVista Linux on the Intel IXP4XX products, along with a variety of VPN software stacks, including FreeS/WAN open-source. The combined solution offers industry’s highest system-level performance for the price-points needed by secure gateway and router products for broadband access and wireless-LAN applications.

Applicable CPUs
XScale