Sensory Networks Developing Pattern Matching API for Intel

Sensory Networks, a provider of pattern matching and acceleration software technology, has introduced plans to provide full support of the Intel (News - Alert) QuickAssist Technology API for L2 - L7 content inspection performed by its HyperScan engine. Roll-out of the new support is expected later this year.

 

HyperScan is a high-speed pattern matching software solution with suite of specialized content scanning engines, including PCRE. Along with Intel QuickAssist Technology support on HyperScan, vendors can utilize a common API and code base to minimize many of the complexities associated with application interfacing and system integration.

 

In addition, the architecture will allow vendors to switch flexibly between hardware and software solutions. HyperScan presently delivers layer 2 - layer 7 content scanning performances to over 29Gbps on an Intel quad-core processor platform, while matching against millions of patterns that include regular expressions, literals, wildcards and back-references.

 

"Sensory will be the first company to provide software-only support for Intel QuickAssist Technology at performance levels comparable to hardware solutions," said Mick Johnson, Director of Product Marketing for Sensory Networks. "With HyperScan, we've taken a major leap forward by delivering software performance that breaks through memory, latency, and throughput performance barriers previously thought to be insurmountable."

 

"As demand for content inspection continues to build, Intel QuickAssist Technology will enable the industry to converge on a common API that is simple, easy to support and provides deployment flexibility," said Stephen Price, marketing director, Intel Performance Products Division.

 

Sensory Networks HyperScan scales linearly as well as super-linearly with the number of CPU cores and provides a deep content inspection solution that leverages cache memory to provide pattern matching up to speeds of 29Gbps. As HyperScan is a 100% software solution, its high performance, scalability and flexibility ensures substantial gains in packet processing intelligence, price/performance and time-to-market advantage for networking and security platforms.