SonicWALL Picks Cavium Processors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Cavium Networks, the cost and performance leader in security processing solutions today announced that SonicWALL's (NASDAQ: SNWL) recently announced PRO 2040 and PRO 5060 platforms use Cavium's NITROX security processor to accelerate VPN performance. The NITROX Security processor family is used by networking OEM vendors in a wide variety of applications such as IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, Web serv ers, Wireless Gateways, Secure Storage, Switches and Routers.

"Our popular PRO 3060 and PRO 4060 products raised the price/performance bar for their categories with Cavium's powerful security processors, and we're now extending the product line with the PRO 2040 and the PRO 5060, which also feature Cavium's merchant security silicon," said John Gmuender, VP Engineering, SonicWALL, "Cavium's broad and programmable NITROX security processor family has allowed SonicWALL to offer a range of hardware-accelerated performance points with maximum re-use of our software and without expensive in-house ASIC development."

"Cavium NITROX security processors provide software and pin compatibility across the industry's widest range of performance points." said Rajiv Khemani, VP Marketing, Cavium Networks. "We are pleased to see SonicWALL effectively utilize the flexibility, functionality and performance range of our security processors, to build world-class products and bring them rapidly to market."

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