Freescale and Flextronics Software Systems
demonstrate "OEM-ready" VPN security application
- Companies collaborate to deliver powerful security
equipment platform for enterprise market
Munich (Germany), (Freescale Technology Forum), 18 October,
2005 – Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) and
Flextronics Software Systems (FSS), formerly Hughes Software
Systems, a global end-to-end communication solutions provider,
have collaborated to develop a robust enterprise security
router solution. This advanced IPSec-VPN-based router solution
is powered by Freescale's MPC8555E PowerQUICC™ III integrated
communications processor and FSS’s Enhanced Security
System (ESS) software. FSS is providing the first public demonstration
of this router platform solution at the Freescale Technology
Forum today in Munich.
"By teaming with Flextronics Software Systems, we are
providing enterprise customers with a PowerQUICC III processor-based
VPN router platform solution that can be taken to market quickly
and with minimal development cost,” said Lynelle McKay,
Vice President and General Manager of Freescale’s Digital
Systems Division. “In today’s competitive environment
where time-to-market means everything to our customers, we’re
excited to collaborate with a respected leader to deliver
such an advanced, market-ready solution.”
"Freescale and Flextronics Software Systems have a strong
synergy in hardware- and software-based security technology,
and both companies are committed to providing robust security
solutions for enterprise networks," said Ajay Gupta,
Assistant Vice President & Head of Products at Flextronics
Software Systems.
The high-performance processing engine of the VPN router
platform solution is Freescale’s MPC8555 PowerQUICC
III communications processor. The MPC8555 is based on the
e500 PowerPC® core, which is designed to deliver a peak
performance of 2310 MIPS at 1 GHz. The processor also integrates
a powerful security engine, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, a
RISC-based communications processor module (CPM) supporting
Ethernet, ATM and TDM, and a DDR memory controller. The MPC8555’s
integrated security engine supports DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1,
AES and ARC-4 encryption algorithms, along with public key
support and a random number generator.
The Enhanced Security System (ESS) from FSS is a scalable,
OEM-ready, standards-based enterprise security software solution.
ESS combines VPN (IPSec/PPTP/L2TP) capabilities, ICSA-certified
stateful firewall, NAT and IPv4 routing functions, intrusion
prevention and content filtering, making this a comprehensive,
all-in-one security solution for branch office and VPN enterprise
router OEMs.
Highly portable, modular and flexible, ESS is a platform-
and operating-independent solution that works with a wide
range of real-time operating systems (RTOSs) and processor
combinations. ESS supports industry-standard call-level interfaces
(CLI) for selective components and comes with a user-friendly
Web interface for ease of use. For OEMs building security
equipment, ESS accelerates time-to-market by reducing the
software development cycle by as much as 80 to 90 percent.
Platform Availability
The Flextronics ESS software evaluation package is available
now on Freescale’s PPCEVAL-8555-CDS reference systems.
For more information, visit the MPC8555 product page at www.freescale.com/powerquicc.
About Flextronics Software Systems (FSS)
FSS is an end-to-end communication solutions provider with
over 300 customers worldwide in the telecom infrastructure
and handset, service provider and business process outsourcing
(BPO) sectors. FSS offers both products (licensable technologies)
and full-spectrum outsourcing services to its customers for
wireline, wireless, and next-generation fixed or IP networks.
Assessed at SEI-CMMI Level 5, FSS has been an ISO 9001 company
since 1996.
For more information, please visit: www.flextronicssoftware.com.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) is a global
leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors
for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless
markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July
2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The
company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research
and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more
than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500®,
is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies,
with 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD).
For more information, please visit: www.freescale.com
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Last updated :
October 20, 2005
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