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Britestream Networks Awarded
Patent on Memory Processing Technology
Austin, TX – December 14,
2004 – Britestream
Networks, a catalyst for the creation of a ubiquitous, secure and private
Internet today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office
has granted the company U.S. patent 6,738,874, entitled "Controller Architecture
and Strategy for Small Discontiguous Accesses to High-Density Memory Devices".
The patent covers a key area of competitive differentiation for Britestream’s
Instream Security Processing Architecture.
The technology covered in the patent provides a memory architecture that enables
the use of high-density, low power, and lower cost devices while providing adequately
high bandwidth in accessing small blocks of data associated with each TCP connection.
The bandwidth issues are addressed by optimizing the order in which requests
are made from memory to minimize overhead.
" When developing our solution, we discovered several bottlenecks to processing
data at wire speed", says Les Zsohar Director of Systems Architecture at Britestream
Networks and the inventor behind this patent. "For instance, there are significant
data and state storage requirements with TCP processing. One aspect of our overall
solution required us to provide a method to use standard dynamic RAM memory devices,
which normally couldn’t keep up with wire speed throughput with these types
of accesses, in order to reduce the total system cost to our customers."
" The technology behind this patent is just one of the innovations that allow
Britestream to provide deterministic performance with our Instream Security Processing
architecture", says Mike Salas, VP of Marketing for Britestream Networks. "Our
performance claims are both predictable and achievable in real world applications."
Britestream’s Instream Security Processing architecture is the foundation
for the BN1010 SSL Security NIC. The BN1010 is the world’s first SSL NIC
that is completely self-contained and manages all facets of SSL processing on
a single PCI card. It couples powerful simplicity and uncompromised performance
with fortified protection.
About Britestream
Britestream Networks provides breakthrough
solutions for the rapidly growing security market. Britestream’s patented
Instream Security Processing architecture offers a unique combination of powerful
simplicity, uncompromised performance, and fortified security. From existing
applications such as servers, load balancers, firewalls, and content switches
to fast-growing emerging applications such as SSL VPNs, XML/Web Services, and
secure e-mail gateways, Britestream’s board and chip solutions remove all
barriers and penalties of ubiquitously deploying security. This is Internet security
as it is meant to be. Automatic. Easy. Everywhere.
For more information, visit: www.britestream.com
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