Wind River Pattern Matching Engine Breaks New Ground to Address High-Performance Security for Growing NFV Needs
October 22 2014 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- New benchmarks for Wind River Content
Inspection Engine demonstrate pattern matching throughput of over
36 Gbps on Intel Atom processors.
- High-speed pattern matching enables
security appliance vendors to scale security performance and
intelligence across the network from low-end to high-end
platforms.
- Software pattern matching on Intel
architecture enables the optimized performance and scalability
needed for resource-intensive Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
applications.
Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for
intelligent connected systems, has debuted new performance
benchmarks for its high-speed pattern matching software, Wind River
Content Inspection Engine.
According to recent benchmarks, Content Inspection Engine, also
sold as Hyperscan, now delivers pattern matching throughput of over
36 Gbps on the Intel® Atom™ processor C2000 series, using tier-1
original equipment manufacturer (OEM) IPS patterns to scan
real-world HTTP traffic. It is a pattern matching library designed
to drop into a vendor’s system software release and be used for an
entire product line, without requiring any additional software or
hardware resources. With scanning performance on high-end Intel
Xeon®–based platforms exceeding 280 Gbps, these benchmarks
demonstrate Content Inspection Engine’s ability to deliver scalable
performance, making it an ideal pattern matching technology for
low-end to high-end security platforms and NFV-based solutions.
Security appliance vendors are under growing pressure to better
engineer for higher performance in order to meet market needs.
Performance bottlenecks are often due to content scanning,
including the respective challenges of keeping up with rising
volumes of data and increasingly complex new patterns and rule
sets. Using Content Inspection Engine, vendors can now
significantly improve scanning performance and scalability and
enrich their overall network security performance.
“The ability to linearly scale performance to throughput based
on the cores allocated is critical for virtualization,” said Jeff
Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research.
“These benchmarks from Wind River reinforce how software pattern
matching can contribute to high levels of network and security
performance and play a key role in NFV.”
“These latest benchmarks validate how software can transform
processor real estate into scalable security performance,” said
Paul Senyshyn, vice president of communication platforms at Wind
River. “Wind River Content Inspection Engine delivers streamlined
integration and scalability that is compelling for equipment
manufacturers. We are encountering considerable traction from
customers embracing the benefits of high speed pattern matching,
including a steady stream of new evaluations worldwide.”
Content Inspection Engine extends the benefits of pattern
matching as vendors move toward virtual appliances and
applications. NFV in the cloud must rapidly scale to meet the high
growth and demands of the network without modifying software
design. Content Inspection Engine is well suited for this
challenge of scaling rapidly as increased performance is achieved
by simply allocating more resources without the need for
software modifications. Additionally, appliances that use Content
Inspection Engine can easily live-migrate to another server in
less than 300 milliseconds when run on carrier grade Wind River
Linux. This capability is critical in scenarios when downtime must
be minimized, such as during failover or migration to new
equipment when data-center hardware is refreshed.
Content Inspection Engine is a high-speed embedded software
pattern matching solution that can match large groups of regular
expressions against blocks or streams of data. The engine can also
search for multiple patterns simultaneously, even when the streams
of data are scattered in different memory locations. Content
Inspection Engine is a scalable, cost-effective approach that runs
entirely in software. It is ideal for applications that need to
scan large amounts of data, such as intrusion prevention, antivirus
applications, and unified threat management.
For more information about Wind River Content Inspection Engine
and to view its performance benchmarks on the Intel Atom processor
C2000 series, visit http://tinyurl.com/102214cie.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation
(NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for
intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering
computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is
found in nearly 2 billion products. Wind River offers the
industry's most comprehensive embedded software portfolio,
supported by world-class global professional services and support
and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology
and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe,
secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind
River at www.windriver.com.
Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River
Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Intel is a registered trademark
of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
Wind RiverJenny Suh, 510-749-2972jenny.suh@windriver.com
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