Advantech and Freescale Maximize Packet Processing Performance

Freescale Semiconductor, in close collaboration with Advantech, announced today the addition of the first member of Advantech’s Packetarium product line to feature advanced QorIQ processors from Freescale. The Packetarium NCP-7560 platform features eight boards, each of which incorporate two P4080 processors. The P4080 processors integrate eight 1.5GHz cores and feature advanced capabilities such as on-board acceleration, enhanced encryption engines and a clear application migration path for legacy Power Architecture and PowerQUICC customers.

The NCPB-2210 Packetarium board provides four DIMM sockets for up to 16GB DDR3 memory at 800MHz with ECC support. Two XAUI (10GbE) ports connect each NCPB-2210 to the Packetarium system’s main board for high-speed switching.

Freescale's QorIQ processor technology provides outstanding performance for a range of applications. The combination of QorIQ technology with Packetarium gives integrators and equipment manufacturers what they need to address scalable throughput requirements, provide differentiated value and services, and offer the flexibility for future evolution and additional protocol support.

In addition to the board’s enhanced, multi-core packet processing capabilities, the QorIQ P4080 Datapath Acceleration Architecture accelerates packet classification, filtering, and packet queuing. The acceleration technology is ideal for cost effective management of broadband service optimization solutions that leverage deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, giving service providers the visibility and control necessary to truly optimize Internet service delivery applications.

The NCPB-2210 Packetarium board is planned to be integrated with Freescale’s VortiQa security application software. VortiQa software is optimized to take full advantage of Freescale’s QorIQ processor technology, including pattern matching engine, security accelerator, datapath acceleration and other technologies. The combination of the Packetarium platform with VortiQa software enables application-optimal mapping of functionality, thereby boosting performance in asymmetric multi-processing (AMP), symmetric multi-processing (SMP) and hybrid AMP+SMP systems.

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