MONOSEK is a Network Processor based Network Packet Processing and Network Session Analysis system”.

For designers of communications equipment whose network processing requirements extend beyond simple forwarding, the NFP-32xx delivers high performance packet processing with intelligence, security and virtualization for millions of simultaneous flows. Unlike network processors and multicore CPUs that lack L4-L7 programmability or cannot scale to 10 Gbps and beyond, the NFP-32xx is powered by 40 programmable flow processing cores that deliver 2,000 instructions and 50 flow operations per packet at 30 million pps, enabling up to 40Gbps of L2-L7 processing.

Product Highlights NFP-3240

• 70-million enqueue/dequeue packet operations per second
• More than 70 Gbps of total memory bandwidth
• SRAM with support for more than 300 MQOps (queuing operations/second)
• Source-code and backward compatibility with Intel® IXP28XX microengines
• High-performance solution with low power consumption for a broad range of L2-L7 applications
• Delivering up to 30 Mpps/20 Gbps packet forwarding, policing, scheduling, queue management
• Enhanced flow processing cores (v2.7) derived from Intel microengine version (v2.6)
• 40 fully programmable flow processing cores with eight threads each running up to 1.4GHz.
• High-speed PCIe 2.0 interface to multicore x86 or external control plane processor
• Standards-based interfaces for easy integration (e.g., QDRII, DDR3, PCIe 2.0, XAUI, Interlaken)
• Integrated cryptography engine
• High-performance 32-bit ARM11

Flow Processor

• NFP-3240 operating at up to 1.4Ghz

Programmable Processing Cores

• 40 multi-threaded flow processing cores operating at up to 1.4 GHz
• 320 threads
• Microengine v2.7 (8k instructions or 16k shared between 2 MEs; 1k-word local memory)
• ARM11 core @ 700MHz, 500MHz and 325MHz/32-bit data path

Hardware Accelerators

• 20 Gbps cryptography block for DES, 3DES, AES, SHA-1 and SHA-2 algorithms
• PKI engine, 20K RSA ops (1024-bit keys).

Flexible High Bandwidth Interfaces

• SPI-4 Phase 2 @ 250-500MHz (622-1,000 MTs) with 16-bit LVDS (dual-edge) signaling
• XAUI interface @ 3.125GHz for 4 lanes supporting 10 Gbps operation
• Interlaken interface @ 6.25GHz per lane (each of the 4 lanes supports 3.125-6.375GHz operation)
• 1x PCIe Gen2 x8

Memory

• SRAM interface (QDR) (two channels) with peak bandwidth of 2GBytes/sec per channel using 250MHz SRAMs (1GByte/sec Read, 1GByte/secWrite)
• DDR3 DRAM (two channels) with peak bandwidth 8.5GBytes/sec (68.2 Gbps) for 64-bit channel

Power Supply Voltages

• ME Vdd Voltage, 1.125V±3%
• ARM11 Core Vdd Voltage, 1.05V±3%
• Memory I/O Voltage, 1.5V±5%
• GEN-II PCIe I/O Voltage, 1.0V±3%
• SPI4.2 I/O Voltage, 2.5V±5%
• Interlaken Voltage, 1.0V±3%

Performance

• Over 40 Gbps wire speed programmable stateful flow and packet processing
• 56 billion instructions per second
• 30M packets per second
• 1,800 instructions per packet
• 1.84 billion instructions per watt

Package Information

• 1932 Ball (45mmx45mm) Flip Chip Ball Grid Array (FCBGA)
• 1mm solder ball pitch
• 6/6 RoHS-compliant Solution

NFE-3240 Features

• Up to 40 flow processing cores
• OpenFlow 1.3 support with 42 match fields
• OVS 2.0 acceleration
• Packet classification and filtering
• Stateful flow analysis and action processing for up to 8 million flows in hardware
• Hardware-based cryptography and PKI operations
• Extremely low latency
• I/O virtualization
• Packet timestamping with 11ns accuracy
• GPS time synchronization
• Dynamic load balancing to parallelize application performance
• Layer 2 switching
• Layer 3 routing
• Network address and port translation (NAPT)
• Full programming flexibility to support network or protocol changes
• APIs controlling flow processing cores

PCIe

• PCIe Gen2 interface x 8 offering up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the x86

Network Interfaces

• 2x10GigE, SFP+
• 6x1GigE, RJ-45

Memory

• TCAM, up to 36Mb TCAM
• SRAM, up to 32MB @ 300Mhz
• DDR3 DRAM, up to 8GB

Power

• 40W (average)
• 65W (maximum)

Operating Temperature

• 0-70°C ambient

SOFTWARE

• Comprehensive software and hardware development tools
• Comprehensive library of application software building blocks

Operating Systems:

• Ubuntu Server LTS 64-bit (currently 12.04)
• CentOS 6.x 64-bit

Compatible Hardware Platforms:

• NFP-3200 acceleration platforms
• Intel Xeon host CPUs (PCIe Gen2 and Gen3)
• AMD host CPUs (PCIe Gen2 and Gen3)

Licensing:

• 20 users license with speed support up to 6Gbps.
• 8 users license with speed support up to 100Mbps.

Research Interests:

• Virus signatures - Study and analysis.
• Network attacks - Known attacks – Identifying and alerting, creating statistics.
• Network attacks - Behavioral pattern matching to estimate possible new threats.

Real Time & Forensic – Applications and Services

• Monitoring the high speed network traffic.
• Developing own pattern of traffic with API calls.
• Enables us to understand protocols practically.
• To study various protocol traffic patterns.
• To have in-depth analysis of all protocols.
• To create sessions and perform session reconstruction of analyzed protocols.
• Vast scope for Research and Development in Protocols using API calls.
• API-calls serve us to build our own application.

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