Hifn Intelligent Packet Processing - HIPP - Guarantees System Performance

Full-duplex T3 to full-duplex OC-12, Integrated public key, 3DES, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and compression - these latest chips from Hifn have it all in a single high-performance package

If you're in the business of making high performance routers and network access concentrators, HIPP was created for you. Imagine security chips that process each packet without hardware relying on the CPU to intervene at every stage of compression, encryption and authentication. Now add an integral public key processor and true random number generator, and say good-bye to endless protocol software development - with HIPP it's done on-chip in microcode. As you glance over at your available options consider this: HIPP is the recognized way to go to reduce system latency and guarantee system performance with full packet processing, not just algorithm acceleration, and Hifn's common architecture is the shortest path to future performance enhancements.

Common processor architecture, plus Hifn's unmatched design experience, means faster time to market and higher reliability
Adopt the Hifn architecture and you'll be able to concentrate your design efforts on creating the best possible network access products, because the security part of your design is extensible and scalable, with a rock-solid software wrap. It includes a HIPP Software Development Kit (SDK) or Hifn's Security Platform, HSP, which also clears the way towards FIPS 140-1 level 3 compliance. You can take your pick of solutions from IPsec T3 to multi-gigabit or SSL e-commerce security processors. Either way, you can choose a starting point with the knowledge that the next Hifn chip will fit in your design with a minimum of effort. Hifn engineers have helped design security into the world's most highly regarded routing and networking equipment, made by companies such as Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, and many others. You can depend on Hifn as you design your best networking products ever.

OC-3 to OC-12 in a single easy step Scaling performance to OC-12 is achieved by connecting four HIPP 7854s on the streaming bus interface - yielding full-duplex OC-12 data rates even on small packets. As for Security Associations (SAs), the Hifn processor takes you well beyond the standard few thousands offered by most vendors by delivering a staggering 512,000 SAs.

 

Features & Benefits

• Intelligent Packet Processing architecture results in minimal host CPU interaction and maximum system performance
  • Single pass header & trailer processing, compression, encryption and authentication
  • On-chip processing for mutable fields, anti-replay, stateful sequence number checking and header checksum modification
• (7854) 500 Mbps IPsec (3DES/SHA-1 or AES/SHA-1)
  (7814) 200 Mbps IPsec (3DES/SHA-1 or AES/SHA-1)
• (7854) 300 IKE Quick Mode connections per second
  (7814) 120 IKE Quick Mode connections per second
• Support for up to 2K-bit public keys natively
• LZS and MPPC compression engines run at up to 700Mbps and increase the effective data rate throughput of the 7854 when enabled
• Compression feature is ideal for wireless applications
• Stateful packet processing and support of ARC4* algorithm maximize PPTP performance
• High speed 32 or 64-bit/ 66MHz PCI or Streaming Bus interface
• HSP Architecture enables FIPS 140-1 level 3 compliance
• 512K simultaneous sessions supported
• HSP or SDK software shortens development cycle
• 480 BGA package
• 1.5W typical power consumption (7814)