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Algotronix releases 40G MACsec product to add security to Ethernet links
Last Updated: 21/09/2015

Monday, 21st September 2015

Algotronix Ltd., Edinburgh, UK announces that it has now added a 40G MACsec version to its growing range of intellectual property cores.

The Media Access Control Security (MACsec) products are designed to efficiently meet the requirements of IEEE 802.1AE. The 40G joins the existing 10G and 1G cores to give a range of throughputs. The 40G architectural design is targeted at medium and high performance FPGAs or SoCs.

The design has been carefully crafted to support both jumbo frames and minimum size packets with a key change on every packet, which represents the worst case situation for the system. The cores support both 128-bit and 256-bit encryption keys.

“We are very pleased with this extension to our range of MACsec cores”, said Tom Kean, Algotronix Managing Director. “The expanded range of applications needing 40G includes communication systems like Metropolitan Area Networks, data centers, military, enterprise and test equipment”.

MACsec includes an option for “multi-SecY” (multiple MAC Security Entities). This feature is fully supported in the Algotronix core, and allows a transmitting station to use unique encryption keys for packets to different destinations. In a data center, for example, it allows data from different customers to be logically partitioned for added security.

The MACsec core is evolved from the efficient 40G AES-GCM encryption core, and includes the extensive logic required to perform the validation, statistics and Connectivity Associations. MACsec is agnostic to the Ethernet traffic type, and with the introduction of this core can be easily added to 40G systems to provide an additional layer of protection to a network.

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