IEI Releases Latest Cost-Saving Network Appliance Based on Marvell® Platform

Marvell® ARMADA® 8040 is based on a quad-core ARM Cortex®–A72 processor and supports full CPU and I/O virtualization. Meanwhile, it includes an advanced packet processor with rich state-of-the-art connectivity including two 10GbE SFP ports, four 1GbE RJ-45 ports and one expansion slot (PCIe x2). It makes the PUZZLE-M801 ideal for a wild range of IP appliances and data plane applications as well as virtual CPE and enterprise applications.

Based on ARM v8 architecture, ARMADA® 8040 SoC is capable of realizing various SDN deployment. Advanced Exception Layer (EL) provides support for virtual functions such as Linux KVM and Container with secured or non-secured protection.  GIC and SMMU have also been updated to adapt to address translation and interrupt mechanism required in virtual application such as VM, vNIC, vSwitch and SR-IOV.

It is also equipped with DPDK compatible packet processor hardware, which processes packet parsing, classifying and buffer & descriptor management. Its security engine provides crypto hardware acceleration for some parts of SDN functions such as  L2,L3 checksum offload, CRC offload and IPsec handling.