Technology – Fitness – Innovation
Random Musings of a Techno-Fitness-Geek
PUBLISHED IN COMMSDESIGN.COM - July 12, 2000 (PDF) By Stephen Davis and Mel Roberts As business-critical virtual private networks (VPNs) flourish, security considerations are compounded. A solution encompassing software programmability and scaleable hardware is an important step toward designing and implementing tomorrow's secure networks. The demand for security processing capability in common communication products such... Continue Reading →
By Stephen Davis, P. Eng., Chief Architect, Chrysalis-ITS, Ottawa, Canada iApplianceWeb (09/26/02, 11:44:46 PM EDT) (PDF, Link) Advances in silicon-based cryptographic and protocol accelerationtechnologies are allowing wire-rate Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) solutions to become a reality. ASSPs (Application Specific Standard Products) are now available which support10,000 SSL session set-ups per second, utilizing an area of silicon... Continue Reading →
ITBUSINESS.CA - 05/28/2001 - By Paul Fruitman (PDF, Link) Chrysalis Semiconductor and PMC-Sierra Inc. have announced a joint effort designed to eliminate the time lag that comes with secure socket layer (SSL) web processing. Under the agreement, Chrysalis Semiconductor, a unit of Ottawa-based Chrysalis-ITS Inc. and PMC-Sierra will work to integrate Chrysalis's Luna 510 security... Continue Reading →
PRESS RELEASE APRIL 30, 2001 - OTTAWA, ONTARIO (PDF, Link) Chrysalis Semiconductor Division Outlines Plans for High Performance Security Protocol Processing ICs and Software that Enable High Speed SSL Processing Solutions. Chrysalis Semiconductor, a division of Chrysalis-ITS, a leader in network security processing, intends to eliminate performance bottlenecks associated with cryptographic protocol processing. Current security... Continue Reading →
EETIMES - Loring Wirbel - 8/16/2001 12:48 PM EDT (PDF, Link) OTTAWA — Security specialist Chrysalis-ITS laid off more than half its staff Wednesday (Aug. 15), closing its semiconductor division in the process. The company went from 182 to 80 employees, and the laid-off staff included 55 employees working on network-security chips. Chrysalis-ITS cited a delay... Continue Reading →
Press Release - 4/26/2000 3:00 PM EDT (PDF, Link) Burlingame, CA--April 25, 2000--Chrysalis-ITS, developer of systemand semiconductor products for networks and e-business,announced a new class of network security processors at the NextGeneration Networks Conference. As the core networking hardware market evolves from fast rigid ASICs, to new fast and flexible Network Processors,network security processing becomes extremely... Continue Reading →
EETIMES - Loring Wirbel - 5/12/2000 6:59 PM EDT (PDF, Link) LAS VEGAS—The legacy of the first wave of network processors began to unfold at the Networld+Interop show this week, as chip suppliers made their play to collapse more networking functions into silicon. Potentially, more and more of the jobs of a traditional switch, down to... Continue Reading →
EETIMES - Loring Wirbel - 2/12/2001 11:01 AM EST (PDF, Link) A startup called Andes Networks Inc. has devised a way to dramatically accelerate Secure Socket Layer transactions by bypassing the Layer 4 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session. The company is aiming for nothing less than a radical revision of how secure HTTP transactions are conducted.Andes,... Continue Reading →
EETIMES - Loring Wirbel - 4/25/2000 1:06 PM EDT (PDF, Link) KANATA, Ontario ( ChipWire) -- Chrysalis-ITS Inc. here today debuted a single-chip security processor for handling encryption and virtual private network (VPN) management. The Luna 340 utilizes five independent RISC cores from ARC Cores, four dedicated to symmetric security processing and the fifth used for asymmetric... Continue Reading →
