Thread: Network Processor Manufacturers

There are many network processor manufacturers like Intel, Motorola, AMD, Analog Devices, Freescale, Xilinix and Agere. We will consider broad specification of Intel' s network processor. TheIntel IXP455 network processor provides a unique combination of performance, reliability and flexibility. It is based on instruction-level parallelism.

This network processor is suitable for different applications that require built-in communications functionality, such as networking gateways, security appliances, interactive clients, test and instrumentation, RFID readers and networked print imaging applications. It is available at 266, 400 and 533MHz speed. It also provides integrated hardware support for popular crypto¬graphy algorithms.



You can use this processor for en¬hanced applications such as IPSec and secure sockets layer virtual private networks (AESj AES-CCMj3DESj DES SHA-256jSHA-384jSHA-512j MD-5 j RSAjDSAj Diffie-Hellman algorithms). This means that you can induce high-level security also in the network processor-based products.