These two small hardware security vpn accelerators deliver excellent performance at a competetive price, off loading the CPU of the computing intensive tasks of encryption and compression. They are perfect for our HSS 6000 and HSS 4000, and can deliver a throughput of up to 250Mbps doing encryption and compression, more than enough for use at T3, E3, OC-3 and Fast Ethernet speeds.

They are available in two versions with the same functionality and performance, one for the standard 33/66 Mhz 32 bit PCI bus, and one for the Mini-PCI type III form factor.

Specifications:

Hi/fn 7955 security vpn accelerator chip
Total system throughput at up to 250 Mbps
Compression, LZS and MPPC at 420 to 510 Mbps
Encryption, 128/192/256 AES, DES, 3-DES and RC4 at 210 to 460 Mbps
Authentication, SHA-1 and MD5 at 325 to 360 Mbps
Public Key, RSA, DSA, SSL, IKE and DH, 24 to 70 connections/sec using 1024 bit keys
Hardware random number generator
PCI: Low Profile 33/66 Mhz 32 bit PCI 2.3, universal board for 3.3V and 5V systems
Mini PCI: 33/66 Mhz Mini-PCI type III form factor
Power max 1.8 Watt
Operating temperature 0-60 °C

Software:

OpenBSD fully supported in latest release.
FreeBSD fully supported in latest release.