MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., the leader in packet classification and forwarding solutions for networking and communications, today announced revenue shipments to several tier-1 customers of the recently released Network Search Engines with multiple integrated LA-1 interfaces.

The recently announced family of products, the “GLQ” family, has two integrated LA-1 interfaces to enable the sharing of a single Network Search Engine between two Network Processors. The LA-1 interface, which was defined by the Network Processor Forum, allows for glueless interface to any LA-1 compatible solution, including industry leading Network Processors from Intel®.

Using NetLogic’s comprehensive software and hardware development kit, several customers have successfully integrated these devices into multiple networking designs. NetLogic’s development kit includes an evaluation card, software drivers, API, sample code, bring-up utilities and reference schematics, and a Foreign Object Model for co-simulation with Intel’s IXP2400 and IXP2800 family of Network Processors.

"We are very pleased with the success of our development kit in quickly enabling our customers to integrate complete networking solutions," said James McDermott, Director of Marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. “The development kit has enabled our customers to quickly and seamlessly transition from a development environment to at-speed functional prototypes.”

The NSE4256EGLQ-EVB evaluation card is designed to plug directly into the IXP2400 Advanced Development Platform from Intel. The NSE4256GLQ supports two LA-1 interfaces per device, and the evaluation card enables verification of both interfaces via 144-pin Mictor® connectors. A sixteen-bit Host CPU interface connector is also provided for an external control plane processor and associated data can be stored in 4MB of on-board SCD SRAM.

NetLogic’s industry-leading network search engines provide the density and performance required for next-generation communications infrastructure equipment. The high-performance NSE-GLQ, which supports up to 512K IPv4 routing entries per device, is ideal for a wide variety of networking applications that require robust packet classification and traffic management. Mission-critical services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), video and audio streaming, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and a variety of policy-based and security applications require the density and speed of these search engines to deliver guaranteed bandwidth and latency.

NetLogic Microsystems Inc.