Re: ASIC-based vs. Software-based Security Platform

From: Ron Gula (rgula_at_tenablesecurity.com)
Date: 08/27/03

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    Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:33:24 -0400
To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com

    Of course,

    Look at companies like IPolicy. They make extensive use of ASICs and FPGAs,
    but have a completely flexible underlying architecture for updating how they
    do network flow reconstruction, IDS, firewall, etc.

    Ron Gula

    At 01:49 AM 8/27/2003 -0700, Shaiful wrote:
    >Hi guys,
    >
    >Can we have the best of both worlds?
    >
    >With the emergence of network processors and the FPGA
    >like devices that you can buy off-the-shelf, I think
    >it is a very promising direction.
    >
    >Pls refer to the following links:
    >
    >Intel's Network Processor IXP family:
    >http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/
    >
    >Altera's Nios development kit
    >http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-nios.html
    >
    >Tarari's content inspections processor
    >http://www.tarari.com/index2.html
    >
    >Regards,
    >Shaiful

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