The product line has 4 product families – CN80XX, CN81XX, CN82XX and CN83XX with 1 to 24 full custom, enhanced 64-bit ARM v8.1 cores.

The 1 to 4 core CN80XX and CN81XX product families will be sampling in Q2 of 2016, and the 8 to 24 core CN82XX and CN83XX will be sampling in Q3 of 2016.

The product line is optimised to run multiple concurrent data and control planes simultaneously for security and router appliances, NFV and SDN infrastructure, service provider CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage controllers, IoT gateways, printer and industrial applications.

With networks becoming more open and application centric to enable service expansion and increase monetization, the control plane needs to run commercial software distributions and operating systems (e.g., RHEL, Canonical and Java SE), support open source applications (e.g., OpenStack, OpenFlow and Quagga), launch services dynamically and run customer specific services.

The data plane is also challenged to support concurrent coexistence of multiple types of high performance data plane applications for firewall, content delivery, routing, and traffic management.

The bandwidth demanded for these data planes in networks is also exploding, driven by multimedia 4K content and applications, exabytes of storage mirrored across Cloud and Enterprise, real time data acquisition, and rapid growth of connected devices in the IoT world.

The threats inside these open networks of cloud and enterprise are becoming increasingly sophisticated and vulnerabilities are becoming more exposed with the connectivity of millions of unsecured IoT devices.

Product features are:

Enhanced ThunderX (TX) ARM64 bit cores based on the latest ARM v8.1 ISA, with up to 2.2 GHz core frequency and 78K of I-Cache and 32K of D-Cache

CN80XX, CN81XX: From 1 to 4 cores, up to 2MB of Last Level Cache, 1x32b/64b DDR4 with ECC.

CN82XX, CN83XX: From 8 to 24 cores, up to 8MB of Last Level Cache, up to 2x64b DDR4 with ECC
Simultaneous support of bulk and RSA crypto, from 400Mbps to 40Gbps of IPSEC performance and 600 to 20K RSA Ops/sec for 2048 bit keys.

Latest security features – Supports a wide variety of protocols including IPsec, SSL, TLS 1.x, DTLS and ECC Suite B. Also supports a wide variety of algorithms including several variants of AES, 3DES, SHA-2, SHA-3, RSA 2048, RSA 4096, RSA 8192, ECC p256/p384/p521, Kasumi, ZUC and SNOW 3G.

From 500Mbps to 50Gbps of Layer 3 forwarding

Up to 2x 32/64-bit DDR3/DDR4 controllers with ECC, with up to 2400MTS

Integrated Compression Engines with up to 40Gbps

High bandwidth IO: Integrates up to – 12 10Gb/1GbE, 3 40GbE, 4 PCI-Express Gen3, 6 SATA 3.0

Latest ARMv8.1 and SMMU v2 for data center class full-SOC virtualization support

Low Power to meet the strict thermal profiles of fanless designs, off-load cards and outdoor industrial grade form factor.