Continuous Computing Releases 40G ATCA Packet Processing Offering Using NetLogic Microsystems' Multi-Core and Knowledge-based Processors

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09-13-2010
Continuous Computing Releases 40G ATCA Packet Processing Offering Using NetLogic Microsystems' Multi-Core and Knowledge-based Processors
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Continuous Computing, a provider of integrated platform solutions that address the mobile broadband capacity challenge, and NetLogic Microsystems, a developer of intelligent semiconductor solutions for Internet networks, announced their collaboration to deliver 40G AdvancedTCA (ATCA) packet processing platforms using NetLogic Microsystems' XLP multi-core, multi-threaded processors with 64 NXCPUs, the NL11k knowledge-based processors and 10GE PHY solutions.

Based on NetLogic Microsystems' new XLP832 multi-core processor, Continuous Computing's flagship FlexPacket ATCA-PP80 packet processing blade, first announced in February, is designed to support the new 40G ATCA standards and is targeted at core and edge elements in 3G wireless, Evolved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks as well as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) applications such as security, video content delivery, lawful intercept and intelligent traffic shaping.
With the doubling of mobile data traffic volumes every nine months, Continuous Computing's PP80 allows network equipment provider customers, such as Procera Networks, to enable higher quality of service (QoS), increased revenue opportunities and optimized network efficiency for mobile operators who are desperately trying to close the gap between traffic growth and revenue growth.

Building on more than three years of ATCA packet processing market share dominance due to the successful FlexPacket ATCA-PP50, Continuous Computing's 10G blade, the PP80 offers up to a 4X throughput improvement over previous generations and provides the highest I/O density, the highest packet processing performance and establishes a new floor for customers' cost-per-Gigabit when compared to competitive ATCA solutions. Customers may choose to deploy the PP80 in tandem with the company's FlexCore ATCA-FM80 40G hub switch, thereby leveraging Continuous Computing's unmatched expertise in ATCA packet processing, high throughput load balancing and LTE mobile broadband.

"We have a long and successful track record with Continuous Computing's PP50 packet processing blade and have used it as the key engine for packet classification and offloading in our successful PacketLogic PL10000 product line," said Cam Cullen, VP of product line management at Procera Networks. "We're eager to evaluate the PP80 and test its higher performance levels with the addition of the XLP832 processor."

"Having established our leadership in 10G ATCA solutions, we're proud once again to lead the industry in the leap to 40G to meet the exponential growth in mobile broadband traffic," said Mike Coward, CTO and co-founder at Continuous Computing. "Our multi-generation partnership with NetLogic Microsystems has enabled us to develop differentiated mobile infrastructure and DPI system architectures that are optimized to wring the most performance out of every cycle and every system."

The exponential growth of converged voice, video and data traffic over IP-based networks, coupled with the rapid adoption of services and applications over mobile devices, is driving the need for networking equipment to concurrently support all Layers 2 through 7 processing functions and to be able to process network traffic at wire speeds and with full determinism. Because available competitive solutions provide non-deterministic, high latency and best-effort packet processing, networking original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have been forced to compromise network integrity by separating Layers 2 - 4 and Layers 4 - 7 processing on different cards and then selectively performing certain functions only on a fraction of the traffic.

Continuous Computing's FlexPacket ATCA-PP80 packet processing blade will be available in the fourth quarter of 2010.

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