LSI Introduces Industry's First Single-Chip, Low-Cost Solution for Content Inspection

LSI Introduces Industry's First Single-Chip, Low-Cost Solution for Content
Inspection
New RAM-less operating mode enables significantly lower-cost solutions for
silicon-based intrusion prevention and anti-virus applications

MILPITAS, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced the Tarari(R) T1000 series of silicon-based
content inspection processors for networking OEMs. The T1000 series supports
either completely RAM-less or single-memory chip operating modes and provides
scalable throughput up to 2 Gb/s, enabling manufacturers to leverage a single
development effort across a wide range of performance levels. T1000 processors
also occupy one-tenth the board space of previous-generation solutions.
The T1000 series is the first regular expression (regex) processor to
function independently without any external memory for implementations
operating at data rates of 250 Mb/s and 500 Mb/s. When configured for RAM-less
mode operation, T1000 processors share host CPU system memory, resulting in
lower cost and reduced power consumption. The simple addition of a single
low-cost memory chip enables high-performance applications operating at
1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s rates. In contrast, today's competing solutions require
multiple, expensive and exotic memory types to achieve multi-gigabit data
rates.
The T1000 series also allows networking manufacturers to use the same
development effort across their spectrum of performance levels from
entry-level to high-end systems. Now the same regular expression rules can be
used in applications ranging from 100 Mb/s to 10 Gb/s rates, saving
engineering expense and improving time to market. In addition to supporting
real-time performance, these solutions free up the system CPU to process
additional value-added applications. Designers also have the flexibility of
reducing the CPU clock frequency or use fewer expensive CPU cores to reduce
overall system cost and power consumption.
"The new T1000 series is targeted specifically at high-volume
applications," said Randy Smerik, senior vice president, Network Components
Group, LSI. "We have moved very quickly since Tarari joined LSI in October
2007, and the T1000 is a good example of this. Our solutions will drive down
the overall cost of adding greater intelligence, control and security into the
network and complements our multi-gigabit board-level products that went into
production earlier this year."
Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group, said, "LSI is the market
leader in content inspection accelerators due to the deep understanding of
customer and application requirements demonstrated by the Tarari team. The
T1000 series delivers on this capability once again, bringing regex
acceleration to cost-sensitive designs that previously had to rely on
low-performance software implementations."
The LSI Tarari content processor family is a comprehensive set of
solutions providing security, quality of service, content-based billing and
bandwidth management functions. These solutions support common industry
interfaces and a common application programming interface, resulting in
shorter design cycles and faster times to market. A single engineering effort
can support an entire range of networking and security products, from 100 Mb/s
data rates ideal for small and medium business and remote office/branch office
applications, up to 10 Gb/s rates for the most demanding enterprise and
service provider switch applications.
LSI will be demonstrating content inspection technology in Booth #500 at
the upcoming RSA Conference to be held April 7-11, 2008, at the Moscone Center
in San Francisco, Calif.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon,
systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring
people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad
portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product
ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More
information is available at http://www.lsi.com.
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Dan Devine of LSI Corporation, +1-610-712-6802, dan.devine@lsi.com