UTStarcom integrates Hifn security processor in Total Control2000

January 29, 2004

Network security and flow classification expert Hifn announced that UTStarcom has integrated Hifn's HIPP 7854 security processor into its Total Control 2000 wireless access platform.

The UTStarcom Total Control 2000 wireless access platform provides the foundation for delivering 3G cdma2000 PDSN wireless data services and applications to large and growing subscriber populations. The Total Control 2000 platform represents a significant leap forward in density, enabling service providers to take full advantage of 3G technology's greater channel capacities for wireless communications. 3G technology enables wireless mobile handsets to send and receive data at higher speeds and provides a solution for worldwide mobile Internet access and next-generation high-speed voice and data applications.

This powerful solution offers a wealth of benefits, including high availability and the high performance, processing power, and configuration flexibility that service providers need as their networks evolve to support increasing numbers of subscribers, faster speeds and emerging feature and performance enhancements.

"The Hifn 7854 was one of the few available silicon selections that met our demanding needs. With over 1.5 times the throughput of its competitors and nearly double the key exchange rate, the Hifn 7854 easily met the current and future encryption demands of our product," said Terrel Jones, Manager of Platforms at UTStarcom.

"UTStarcom's Total Control 2000 gives service providers the ability to leverage new revenue generating applications such as compression, differentiated billing, and virtual private networking," said Tom Moore, vice president of marketing and sales at Hifn. "As these services move from a decentralized to centralized network architecture, these options will be used to enhance wireless performance, improve billing accuracy, and offer new services to their customers."

The HIPP 7854 used in UTStarcom's Total Control 2000 wireless access platform performs header and trailer processing, compression, encryption, authentication, public key and random number generation. 500Mbps is achieved on full IPsec protocol processing using 3DES or AES and SHA. Effective data rates are higher when LZS or MPPC compression is used, with those engines running at up to 500 and 700Mbps. The HIPP 7854 processor can set up 300 IPsec Quick Mode connections per second, with support for up to 2,048-bit public keys natively.

The HIPP 7854 processor uses either a 32/64-bit, 66 MHz PCI bus or a high-speed streaming interface that is often used in subsystems using multiple 7854s or for connection to a network processor. The local memory interface is over a 32 or 64-bit SDRAM bus. A total of 512K simultaneous IPsec security associations are supported with no performance degradation. HIPP supported algorithms include 3DES, DES, AES and ARC4 encryption, SHA-1 and MD5 authentication, LZS and MPPC compression. Protocols supported include IPsec, SSL, TLS, PPP and PPTP.

The Hifn HIPP family is supported by a comprehensive set of software tools, including a Software Development Kit (SDK) and Hifn's Security Platform (HSP), a collection of hardware and software that provide a full security reference solution for manufacturers of IPsec and SSL networking products.