Sensory Networks' HyperScan Pushes Content Inspection Performance to New Levels
Market Wire, December, 2009
Sensory Networks, the leading provider of
pattern matching and acceleration software technology, today announced the
latest performance results for their HyperScan(TM) engine. Continued
innovation and improvements in the highly adaptable software engine has
resulted in pattern matching/content inspection throughput performance to
scale to 73Gbps running on a dual-socket, quad-core (8-core) Intel
Xeon 5500 Processor Series platform, using an IPS signature set from a
tier-1 equipment vendor.
HyperScan is a portable, easy-to-integrate software library that, aside of
supporting regular expressions, also supports a wide variety of other
pattern sets required for most data networking and security applications.
Given its flexible architecture and innovative algorithms, HyperScan
enables performance tuning for even the most unique patterns. Also, by
employing an innovative compilation technique, signature databases are
transformed to a small memory footprint, while performance is enhanced
across the entire signature set.
“Sensory has been developing innovative algorithms for pattern-matching and
content scanning for several years now, many of which are already deployed
in software solutions and hardware products,” said Geoff Langdale, CTO for
Sensory Networks. “We have extensive experience in working with a wide
variety of signature databases, both proprietary and publicly available. We
are also continuing to improve HyperScan with breakthroughs in throughput
performance and latency, while simultaneously reducing overheads such as
memory usage and signature compilation time.”
“The performance improvements of Sensory’s HyperScan solution are a welcome
addition in the data networking and security market. By utilizing
Intel multi-core architecture, Sensory Networks is able to optimize and
scale performance for deep packet inspection solutions.” said Bob Ghaffari,
Segment Manager, Embedded & Communications Group, Intel.
Sensory Networks has established the impact of HyperScan software by
benchmarking HTTP traffic performance on an off-the-shelf dual-socket,
quad-core (8-core) Intel Xeon 5500 Processor Series platform, running
IPS signatures from a tier-1 IPS equipment vendor. As shown in the chart
below, HyperScan delivers near-linear scalability with the number of CPU
cores/threads, and delivers deep content inspection throughput performance
that scales from 9Gbps to over 70Gbps respectively.
HyperScan not only leverages cache memory to scan large volumes of patterns
simultaneously, but also takes advantage of platform specific
optimizations, such as SIMD and Hyperthreading, to further improve
performance. As a result, HyperScan runs 22% faster on the Intel Xeon
5500 Process Series, on a clock-for-clock basis, when compared to running
on the Intel Xeon 5400 Processor Series.
“Our HyperScan algorithms are steps beyond DFA and NFA implementations
typically used in the industry for pattern matching,” said Sab Gosal, CEO
for Sensory Networks. “Using our patented techniques, coupled with an
intimate knowledge of modern CPU architectures, HyperScan delivers
throughput performance that not only scales linearly, but in cases, runs
faster than equivalent hardware solutions.”
By virtue of HyperScan being a software library, its high performance,
scalability and flexibility directly translate into substantial gains in
packet processing intelligence, price/performance and time-to-market
advantage for networking and security platforms. The product is provided
under a simple license framework that is not only cost-effective compared
to alternative solutions, but also allows equipment vendors to leverage the
technology across multiple product lines. Furthermore, unlike equivalent
hardware-based solutions, HyperScan gives equipment vendors the opportunity
to perform a one-time integration into a system release, thereby allowing
it to be used for new product shipments as well as upgrade systems already
in the field.
For ease of integration and portability, HyperScan is designed as a
user-land library with a simple API. It is also supplied with a
benchmarking tool, documentation and the necessary technical assistance to
ensure a quick and easy evaluation of the product.
For more information on the Intel Xeon 5500 Processor Series
benchmarking, please visit www.sensorynetworks.com where you can download
the corresponding white paper.
About Sensory Networks
Sensory Networks is a provider of software pattern matching and
acceleration software solutions that enable networking and security
equipment vendors to significantly improve the packet processing
intelligence and price/performance of their platforms that support resource
intensive applications such as: Intrusion Prevention (IPS), Antivirus (AV),
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Content Filtering
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