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To boost packet-processing in high speed monitoring, security and networking equipment, Interface Masters (News - Alert) Technologies, a provider of  high speed networking systems, has announced the launch of Niagara 510, a 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) smart network adapter.

Niagara 510 is the latest addition to Interface Masters' existing Smart NIC (News - Alert) family. It offers secure network services, packet classification and network protocol processing from host CPUs to handle up to 40 Gbps of high speed network traffic. 

The smart network adapter comes in a PCI (News - Alert)-e form factor and it is tuned to optimize networking and security appliances, servers and storage systems. It utilizes a multi-core architecture to address high speed networking applications.

Ben Askarinam, founder and CEO of Interface Masters Technologies, said in a statement, “As demand has continued to rise for high speed packet processing, Interface Masters has answered the call to come out with a high performing piece of equipment to address this market. This powerful, smart NIC has the flexibility to address the needs of a variety of applications including data security, traffic classification, and software defined networks (SDN).”

The Niagara 510 is equipped with four 10Gb fiber interfaces, up to 16GB of DDR3, and PCI-e x8 in a half-length PCI-Express form factor.  This PCI-e adapter addresses a broad range of applications for developing intelligent networking platforms.

 The Niagara 510 will enable users to address the growing demand for intelligent network acceleration and application offload for converged datacenter applications such as storage, security, DDoS, deep packet inspection (DPI), firewall, WAN optimization, and application delivery computing.

 It supports application classification, extensive filtering, load balancing of high speed traffic and other packet processing functions. It is developed for system integrators and server providers that support the telecommunications, ISP, IT network security, UTM, storage area networks (SAN), intrusion detection & prevention and WAN acceleration markets. The product is available for evaluation and volume production and is supplied with an extensive SDK supporting Linux and bare metal OS.