Mocana Achieves Peak Performance With
New Acceleration Harness
Latest Offering Unleashes the Power of Freescale
Processors - Hardware Offload Exceeds all Estimates of Achievable
Performance
SAN FRANCISCO - January 9, 2007
- Mocana, a provider of complete
open standards-based security solutions that secure next generation
networks and services all the way to edge devices, today announced
the availability of the Mocana Acceleration Harness 2.0, a software
layer that virtualizes and manages crypto offload from software
to hardware. The Mocana Acceleration Harness is available as part
of the Mocana Device Security Framework or bundled with other
Mocana security products.
"We are excited by this new
release of the Mocana Acceleration Harness. The early benchmarking
results we have seen clearly show the value of our truly
asynchronous architecture," said Adrian Turner, CEO of Mocana.
"With this groundbreaking technology, for the first time
the market can fully unleash the power of crypto acceleration
engines in off-the-shelf processors, portable across the
spectrum of operating systems and security protocols. Many
of our customers and partners have expressed to us their
frustrations in not being able to source a software solution
that can fully take advantage of hardware acceleration and
are ecstatic that one now exists that comes from a trusted
source."
Silicon vendors are increasingly integrating hardware acceleration
engines into their products to speed up cryptographic operations
while freeing up the central processing unit (CPU) to continue
to perform other tasks in parallel. However, to fully utilize
the capabilities of acceleration engines, software is required
that has a true asynchronous architecture. Asynchronicity
is essential to successful parallel processing - the ability
for chips to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, ultimately
increasing efficiency. There is a clear demand in the market
today to address this and no product was available until
now that met the requirements delivering the speed and performance
of Mocana's software together with off the shelf devices
such as Freescale Semiconductor's family of PowerQUICC(tm)
processors. Mocana's Acceleration Harness features an asynchronous
core that is uniquely suited to take full advantage of hardware
acceleration, is easy to use, high performance, and has
the industry's smallest footprint.
Mocana's Acceleration Harness, as part of Mocana's Device
Security Framework, is the missing link to fully unleash
the capabilities of chips that contain security acceleration
cores, while at the same time minimizing CPU utilization.
It is designed to work across multiple security protocols
including SSL/TLS, SSH, IPsec/IKE, and EAP, and provides
superior cryptographic performance, critical for voice and
video environments.
"Mocana's SSL benchmark results demonstrate the superior
performance of Freescale's family of PowerQUICC communications
processors and the highly advanced capabilities of Mocana's
Acceleration Harness technology," said Lynelle McKay, vice
president and general manager of Freescale's Digital Systems
Division. "Mocana's results approach the theoretical limits
of our PowerQUICC processors, and this is the kind of performance
our customers require as they create new generations of
communications equipment."
Mocana recently performed benchmarking tests using Freescale's
1 GHz MPC8555 PowerQUICC III processor with Acceleration
Harness 2.0. Mocana achieved outstanding results. Benchmarking
on the Mocana Embedded SSL Server, Mocana was able to achieve
throughput performance of 480 megabits per second (Mbps),
thereby exceeding Freescale's estimates for protocol processing
overhead and exceeding performance estimates the company
provides to its customers. Using the Mocana Device Security
Framework with Freescale's MPC8555 PowerQUICC III processor,
businesses can transfer large amounts of data faster and
more efficiently than ever before. For more detail on the
benchmarking results, go to www.mocana.com/benchmarks.html.
About Mocana
Mocana is a security software company focused on enabling
next generation networks and services all the way to edge
devices. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software
solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks
and services perform and scale with the utmost security
- a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers
include Dell, Cisco, Avaya, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell,
Symbol, Net.com and Radvision, among others.
Mocana was founded in 2002, is privately-held, and headquartered
in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit
www.mocana.com. To request a free full source code and documentation
evaluation of Mocana's security solutions, visit www.mocana.com/evaluate.html
Media contact:
Gregory P. Funaro
Acount Representative
Lois Paul & Partners
781-782-5896
Greg_Funaro@lpp.com
For Immediate Release
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