SAN JOSE, CA, March 31 — EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE — Mocana, a software company that delivers comprehensive embedded security solutions for non-PC devices, today announced the availability of its Device Security Framework software, specially optimized for Freescale’s PowerQUICC? processors. The PowerQUICC family is the most popular communications processor architecture on the market.
The combination of Mocana’s Device Security Framework and Freescale’s PowerQUICC encryption-enabled processors with integrated crypto security acceleration allows communications equipment manufacturers to build and secure high-performance systems much more quickly and inexpensively.
Mocana’s DSF supports virtually all popular embedded operating systems, including Linux as well as solutions from Wind River, MontaVista, Green Hills, QNX, ThreadX and others.
“Mocana has demonstrated an impressive customer solution in one of our fastest-growing markets — secured data communications equipment such as VPN devices, wireless access points and networked storage,” said Raja Tabet, vice president of Solutions Enablement Technology for Freescale’s Networking & Multimedia Group. “Combining hardware acceleration in our PowerQUICC processors with Mocana’s optimized software solution results in industry-leading performance and optimal prices for our customers.” “The delivery of our Device Security Framework software optimized for Freescale platforms represents a significant milestone for Mocana,” said Adrian Turner, Mocana’s chief executive officer. “The PowerQUICC processors are well-understood as cutting edge and for Freescale to rely on Mocana to help its customers meet their most stringent security requirements is a testament to the quality and performance of our innovative offering.” Using the Mocana DSF software with PowerQUICC II, PowerQUICC II Pro or PowerQUICC III encryption enabled embedded processors for encrypted VPN traffic helps to deliver 20x-30x better performance than software-only security.
Significant advantages in both throughput and reduced CPU utilization are clear, especially when benchmarked against open source security protocol stacks. And DSF’s simple API makes it easy for developers to embed super-fast security into their projects based on Freescale technologies, potentially saving product teams hundreds of thousands in engineering costs, and potentially millions of dollars in testing and support costs.
More information on the solution is available at (mocana.com/dsf-freescale.html).
Availability
The Device Security Framework for Freescale Processors is available now from Mocana for most PowerQUICC encryption enabled processors. For pricing and purchase information, please email [email protected] or call 866-213-1273.
About Mocana
Mocana secures the “Internet of Things”: the ubiquitous devices of our lives, our infrastructure and the enterprise networks to which they connect. As connected devices proliferate — they already outnumber workstations on the Internet by about 5 to 1 — attacks on these “soft targets” are rising exponentially. Mocana’s solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, servers, networks and their services all scale securely.
Customers include Dell, Cisco, Avaya, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol and Radvision, among others. The company was recently named one of Red Herring’s GLOBAL 100 — one of the “Top 100 Privately-Held Companies in the World” for 2008, and also won Frost & Sullivan’s Technology Innovation of the Year award. For more information, visit www.mocana.com.
