NEWTON, Mass. -- Raqia Networks announced today that samples of its ReGXP2G Regular Expression Coprocessor are available now and production devices will be available in April 2003. The device is priced at $200 in 10K quantities.The ReGXP2G ASSP is packaged in a 648-pin FBGA and is fabricated in a 0.18 micron process. It has a look-aside architecture, a glue-less interface to Network Processors, and supports up to 64MB of ZBT SSRAM. The ReGXP2G is a fully configurable classification and inspection processor and is programmed using widely-recognized Perl-based regular expressions. The chip inspects every byte of every packet header and payload and performs rule matching across multiple packets. It provides deterministic 2.5Gbps performance regardless of the number or complexity of rules, packet size, or protocol.Raqia’s Regular Expression Coprocessor supports 2.5Gbps “signature recognition”, enabling high-speed intrusion detection and prevention, virus scanning, ACL-like classification, and other security applications. The chip also supports full HTTP header and payload-parsing and cookie detection for Web-switching and SLB applications; XML parsing; as well as other data parsing-intensive, server-based applications. With the accompanying compiler, the ReGXP2G supports rule-based matching anywhere in the packet header or payload, searching byte-by-byte using anchored or unanchored signatures.Raqia Networks Inc.