Citrix Systems Integrates Cavium Networks FIPS 140-2 Certified Adapters in Four New NetScaler(R) Platforms
August 24 2010 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for networking, communications and the digital home,
today announced that Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), has
integrated Cavium's NITROX® XL CN16XX NFBE HSM Adapters to achieve
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2, Level 2
compliance in four new Citrix® NetScaler® MPX™ Platforms. These
NetScaler platforms benefit from the world's fastest SSL security
performance of 5 Gigabits/sec and 45,000 RSA Operations/sec, high
speed IO connectivity, compact form factor, and future proof
features that enable FIPS 140-2 Level 3 as well as FIPS 140-3
support, offered by Cavium's FIPS 140-2 Level 2 & 3 certified
Hardware Security Module (HSM) Adapters. FIPS certified HSMs are
becoming a growing requirement for government, financial and
healthcare applications.
HSMs are physical devices with a tamper-resistant enclosure that
can be attached directly to the appliance, server or general
purpose computer. HSMs provide both logical and physical protection
of secure keys from non-authorized use and potential adversaries
and are widely used in the industry for managing digital keys,
accelerating digital signings/second and for providing strong
authentication to access critical keys for server applications.
Achieving FIPS 140-2 level 2 and 3 certification requires
significant expertise and time, and OEMs leverage pre-certified
HSMs to significantly reduce research and development cost and
time-to-market of their systems.
Two key trends in the networking marketplace are driving the
need for high performance HSMs. First, network encryption
performance requirements have grown significantly due to the
increased adoption of encryption and the mandate for 2048 bit keys
in SSL certificates. Second, encrypted Web traffic is becoming
critical for Department of Defense (DoD) and federal civilian
agencies. The NITROX XL CN16XX-NFBE Adapter family delivers market
leading performance for both symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic
operations including 2048 bit keys and trusted security for
government/DoD, financial and healthcare applications.
"The Citrix NetScaler MPX FIPS models accelerate the performance
and improve the security of web-based applications for Department
of Defense and civilian agencies," said Sunil Potti, vice president
of product management and marketing, networking and cloud product
group at Citrix. "Cavium's NITROX XL NFBE adapters offer highly
scalable performance and future-proofing capabilities that allow us
to deliver a high performance platform in a short timeframe. We
expect to widely deploy these platforms in federal, financial and
healthcare markets."
NITROX XL CN16XX-NFBE Adapter Family
Cavium Networks NITROX XL NFBE FIPS 140-2 level 2 and 3 adapters
perform all asymmetric and symmetric key management within the
tamper proof enclosure. The functions include secure user
login/authentication, user-authorized key creation/deletion,
on-card key storage, and secure off-card key archiving/sharing.
In addition to typical FIPS HSM functionality, the NITROX XL
CN16XX NFBE also supports an option for two ports of Gigabit
Ethernet, adding NIC functionality to the HSM adapter. The PCIe
Gen2 adapter also supports a USB interface used for a Level 3
solution. The NITROX XL CN16XX-NFBE adapter family is a
future-proof design that can be upgraded to the FIPS140-3
specification, and ECC for digital signing with a firmware update.
This family is offered in multiple SKUs spanning in performance
from 7,000 RSA Ops/sec and < 1 Gbps to 45,000 RSA Ops/Sec and 5
Gbps.
About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that
help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989,
Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing
technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual
workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than
230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build
simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners
with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual
revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.
About Cavium Networks Cavium Networks is a
leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and
the digital home. Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance
from 100 Mbps to 40 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent
functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and
access and service provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors
are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems,
tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium Networks
principal offices are in Mountain View, CA with design team
locations in California, Massachusetts and India. For more
information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com
OCTEON and NITROX are registered trademarks of Cavium Networks,
Inc. Any other trademarks mentioned are the property of their
respective owners.
Cavium Networks Contact: Angel Atondo Marketing
Communications Manager Tel: (650) 623-7033 Email: Email Contact
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