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

[Ron Gula <rgula () tenablesecurity 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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