San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — SiberCore Technologies announced that its plug-and-play coprocessor card has been fully integrated with the Intel IXP2400 development platform. The SCTB2409-B TCAM modular card, software development kit (SDK), and reference software simplifies designs and improves performance of OC-48 and OC-192 equipment such as metro, edge, and core routers and Enterprise LAN… switches. The supplied software library supports operation on VxWorks- and Linux-based systems.

The SCTB2409-B modular card includes a SiberCAM Ultra-9M co-processor and plugs directly onto the Intel IXP2400 development platform through the QDR SRAM/Network Processing Forum LA-1 interface. The SiberCore co-processing hardware and FOM function seamlessly with either Intel IXP2400 or IXP2800 network processor.

SiberCore's modular and layered control plane application programming interface (API) provides control, initialization, search and maintenance functions for the Intel IXP2400 network processor. SiberCore's TCAM solution provides software code to perform IPv4 forwarding and header checks in addition to classification, thereby reducing clock cycles by as much as 60% compared to memory-based algorithmic solutions. The savings includes lower instruction counts and latency bounds, which can be utilized by designers to implement further revenue generating applications in the system. Reduced latency and bus loading also eases board layout for efficient system design.

The SiberCore SCTB2409-B TCAM modular card is available now, and is priced at US $2400. The SiberCore SDK is also available now, supported by extensive written documentation, including user guides, user manuals, and data plane macro library.

 
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