LSI Tarari T2000 10G Content Processor Breaks One Watt Per Gigabit Per Second Barrier
LSI announced the LSI Tarari T2000 series of silicon-based content processing solutions for high-speed networking applications.
The T2000 offers 10 gigabit per second (Gb/s) performance on a single chip, breaking the one watt per Gb/s barrier for the first time.
Tarari T2000 content processors can significantly offload any X86-, MIPS- or PowerPC-based processor in a network or server environment. The pay-off is much faster content processing at a fraction of the cost and power consumption, which is a critical requirement for equipment providers.
Operating at wire speeds, Tarari T2000 content processors offload critical network applications such as anti-virus and anti-spam detection, intrusion prevention, content-based billing and filtering, bandwidth management and QoS. For high-bandwidth applications, two T2000 chips can be coupled to provide up to 16 Gb/s of throughput in a very small form factor. T2000 software can detect and load balance up to four 16 Gb/s PCI Express boards, providing up to 64 Gb/s of performance for the most demanding network environments.
T2000-based systems use low-cost DDR RAM, available at a fraction of the cost of expensive SRAM required by other solutions. The family is based upon common industry interfaces and a common application programming interface, resulting in shorter design cycles, faster times to market and longer product life.