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Broadcom CryptoNet Processor

Product Version Certified: BCM95805-CP and BCM95822-CP
Certified for use with: Check Point Next Generation and Check Point 2000

Product Description: Two cards are available: VPN-1 Accelerator Card II and the VPN-1 Accelerator Card III. The VPN-1 Accelerator Card II delivers over 175 Mbps 3DES VPN throughput while the VPN-1 Accelerator Card III delivers over 400 Mbps 3DES VPN throughput. Supports DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1. Built in driver support for Linux, Windows NT, Solaris.
 
Company Description: Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband digital transmission of voice, video and data.
   
Key Features and Benefits

High-performance Single-Chip Security Processor Integrating Full IPSec Acceleration.

The Broadcom Security Processor (integral component of VPN-1 Accelerator Card) integrates a high-performance IPSec engine (DES, 3DES, HMAC-SHA-1, HMAC-MD5), public key processor, true random number generator, PCI interface and context buffer memory onto a single chip. The highly integrated Security Processor is an ideal solution for VPN-enabled networking products such as SOHO routers and gateways, VPN appliances, access concentrators and network interface cards.

The VPN-1 cards virtually eliminates bottleneck in high-performance SSL (Secure Socket Layer) enabled Web Servers thus freeing up host CPU resources for other web serving tasks.

Aggressive prefetch DMA eliminates the need for external memory and maximizes throughput under real-world conditions

OPSEC Integration
The Broadcom Cryptonet (VPN-1 Accelerator) card enable Check Point VPN-1 systems to deliver transparent 3DES network security solutions for wirespeed 10/100 Ethernet and SONET OC-3 network connections found in the majority of today's local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) respectively. Ideal for IP security and e-commerce applications, the Cryptonet card can be designed into virtually any Check Point VPN-1 Gateway or Appliance. By offloading the compute intensive Cryptography processing tasks, the CPU is freed to process other Firewall functions at improved data rates.