[September 09, 2011] Sensory Networks Releases DPI Software Optimized for Cavium Octeon II Processors Tweet Sep 09, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Sensory Networks, a provider of pattern matching software technology, announced availability of its HyperScan engine with optimized support for the Octeon II MIPS64 multi-core processor series from Cavium, a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home. "Our experience in developing innovative algorithms for matching large sets of regular expressions has enabled us to deliver excellent performance on a variety of architectures," said Geoff Langdale, CTO of Sensory Networks, in a release. "In addition to high DPI throughput, HyperScan provides a number of advantages in other critical areas including low latency, small packet performance, pattern database compilation time, and runtime memory usage. Our native support for streaming also makes more complex functionality, such as cross-packet inspection, easy to implement." "We've made tremendous progress in making HyperScan agnostic to any type of CPU architecture and operating system, while ensuring solid DPI performance and scalability," said Sab Gosal, CEO of Sensory Networks. "While support for the Octeon II processor series enables us to meet our customers' immediate needs, we look forward to continuing to work with Cavium on further advancing the HyperScan-Octeon II solution." "The content inspection performance and linear scalability, delivered by Sensory Networks' HyperScan, is most impressive and much needed in a market where demand for DPI-driven applications such as security, URL filtering and application recognition is growing rapidly," said John Bromhead, Director of Product Marketing at Cavium. "We are pleased to see Sensory optimizing their software on our market-leading Octeon II processors for the emerging market place." The new release of HyperScan supports dual-core to 32-core Octeon II processors, and when benchmarked with a database of complex regular expressions, targeted at intrusion prevention from a tier-1 equipment vendor, delivered Deep Packet Inspection throughput of 3Gbps using two Octeon II cores, while also capable of delivering over 40Gbps on a 32-core Octeon II processor with linear scalability. HyperScan is a software pattern matching engine intended for integration into networking and security OEM platforms. The engine supports applications that rely on pattern matching tasks. The engine also supports regular expression constructs and provides cross-packet inspection functionality. HyperScan is provided under a simple license framework. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]