Broadcom Unveils Secured Switch Processors

Broadcom announced two new secured switch processors that deliver advanced firewall and hardware-accelerated VPN capabilities for wired and wireless small-office/home- office (SOHO), remote-office/branch-office and small-to-medium enterprise routers and gateways. The new devices integrate an IPsec processor that supports industry-standard security features such as encryption, Internet Key Exchange acceleration and user authentication. As with Broadcom’s other Sentry5 security products, an on-chip MIPS processor that runs application software and a 5-port 10/100 Ethernet switch are also integrated within the single chip. Both of the new devices have an on-chip true random number generator and a public-key processor to support up to 2048-bit public-key exchange algorithms like Diffie-Hellman, RSA and DSA. Both devices deliver up to 150 Mbps of single-pass AES/3DES encryption and HMAC-SHA-1/HMAC-MD5 authentication throughput and 150 Diffie-Hellman or 200 RSA 1024-bit public-key exchanges per second IKE negotiations.
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