SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Netronome, the leading developer of network flow processors, today announced that it is shipping the NFP-3240 to customers. The NFP-3240 is the industry’s only processor specifically designed for tight coupling with multicore Intel® processors to accelerate network, security and content processing to 40 and 100 Gbps.

The NFP-3240 brings breakthrough performance to a broad range of demanding networking applications. Customer designs include shared service blades in switches and routers, 3G and LTE wireless infrastructure, security appliances and virtualized servers. Top-tier network equipment OEMs will reach production in the second half of 2010.

“We are pleased that the companies designing-in the NFP-3240 are among the world’s largest network equipment manufacturers,” said Niel Viljoen, founder and CEO of Netronome. “Netronome is in its third year of record revenues and as the market for network flow processors continues to expand, we expect our growth to accelerate.”

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