IDT Intros Net Processors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Nasdaq: IDTI), a leading communications IC company and the leading provider of network search engines and classification processors, today announced that it is now shipping the PAX.ware 2500 classification evaluation system for the PAX.port 2500 classification and content inspection processor, through its wholly owned subsidiary, IDT Canada, Inc., formerly Solidum Systems. The PAX.ware 2500 allows next-generation system designers to evaluate full, wire-speed classification processing in network processing architectures featuring the PAX.port 2500 classification processor. "The PAX.ware 2500 is designed to enable evaluation and testing of OC-48 classification and content inspection in content switches, content security devices, multi-service switches, edge routers and Enterprise networking equipment," said Joe Aragona, marketing manager for IDT's IP co-processor division. "The platform allows system designers to obtain a complete understanding of the capabilities of the PAX.port 2500 processor, thereby reducing their time to market with new equipment designs." The PAX.port 2500 is an application specific standard product (ASSP) classification processor that can be used in a streaming architecture to achieve multi-Gigabit packet processing and classification. It performs Layer 2-4 classification and is optimized for full Layer-7 content inspection and regular expression matching at OC-48 line rates in web switches, load balancers, multi-service switches, IP services gateways, cable modem termination systems (CMTS), edge routers, protocol analyzers, and fixed broadband wireless access stations. Classification processing on the PAX.port 2500 can be programmed using the PAX.works software development kit (SDK) that provides complete programming and execution environments including examples and templates for current networking protocols and encapsulations. This comprehensive software kit makes it possible for equipment designers to prototype, test, and debug complex classification to fit specific applications and provides the ultimate programming flexibility for classification processing and is based on an open, fourth generation pattern description language. The PAX.ware 2500 is the first in a series of evaluation systems that will be released based on the PAX.port 2500. Future systems will be designed to work seamlessly with leading network processors, including the new IntelR IXP2400 and IXP2800 network processors. In a separate release: IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Nasdaq: IDTI), a leading communications IC company and the leading provider of network search engines and classification processors, today announced that it is now shipping the latest version of its complete classification processing software development kit (SDK) for its PAX.port family of classification and content inspection processors. PAX.works 3.4 is used to prototype, test, and debug complex classification, content inspection and regular expression matching that enables intelligent application management in next-generation networking equipment. The SDK is available through IDT's wholly owned subsidiary, IDT Canada, Inc., formerly Solidum Systems. IDT's PAX.ware 3.4 provides programming and execution environments that make it possible for equipment designers to develop and test classification processing tailored to their needs. Most importantly, PAX.works software can be used to program IDT's family of PAX.port classification processors, thereby reducing time to market development cycles for new equipment designs. Based on an open, fourth-generation pattern description language, PAX.ware 3.4 provides the ultimate programming flexibility for classification and content inspection processing. This programming language makes it easier to program complex classification because it can represent any communications protocol header or Regular regular expression as a pattern of bits in a standard text file based on a predefined format and syntax, including protocols that have fixed and variable length fields. As a result, developers of telecommunications networking equipment do not have to restrict the packet processing power of their equipment based on protocol boundaries, search key length limitations, or rule complexities. "The PAX.works SDK is a proof point to IDT's approach to provide system-level solutions that accelerate time to market, increase system performance and reduce development costs for designers of next generation networking equipment," said Joe Aragona, marketing manager for IDT's IP co-processor division. "As fourth-generation software, our latest software kit utilizes a pattern description language that provides unprecedented programming flexibility for classification and content inspection processing." This release offers significantly reduced host memory footprint, and faster classification generation time. It also provides a better guarantee of throughput at wire rates.Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT)