Lenovo Security Selects NetLogic Microsystems’ Processors for Its Award-Winning KingGuard Security Gateway Family

NetLogic Microsystems’ market-leading XLR® and XLS® multi-core, multi-threaded processors deliver best-in-class performance and scalability for a full range of Lenovo KingGuard security gateway products

RSA Conference 2010 

San Francisco and Mountain View, Calif. – March 2, 2010 – NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that Lenovo Security Technologies has selected its market-leading XLR® and XLS® families of multi-core, multi-threaded processors for Lenovo’s award-winning KingGuard Security Gateway product family.  Lenovo Security will be showcasing its KingGuard 9000, 8000 and 5000 security gateways at this year’s RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco, Calif. from March 1-5, 2010 at booth #1051.

Lenovo Security’s KingGuard family of security gateways is highly scalable to deliver performance ranging from 1 Gbps to 20 Gbps, and is targeted at protecting mission-critical telecommunications, enterprise, financial and university networks from the growing threats of web attacks and vulnerabilities.  The KingGuard 9000 and 8000 series of products utilize NetLogic Microsystems’ XLR732 multi-core, multi-threaded processors, while the KingGuard 5000 platform utilizes the XLS416 processor.  Standardizing on NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class multi-core processors across the entire KingGuard security gateway family has enabled Lenovo Security to develop and deliver a scalable family of products across multiple performance and price points on a common hardware and software architecture. 

“We view NetLogic Microsystems as a very important long-term strategic technology partner of Lenovo Security,” said Keqian Liu, president and chief executive officer of Lenovo Security Technologies.  “We have been very impressed with the performance of NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core and multi-threaded processors which have provided us with the superior performance and compelling feature-set advantages for our award-winning KingGuard security gateways.”

“We are very pleased to have Lenovo Security standardizing the entire KingGuard family of high-performance security appliances on our XLR and XLS multi-core, multi-threaded processors,” said Sunny Siu, president and general manager of Asia-Pacific operations at NetLogic Microsystems.  “Our market-leading XLR and XLS multi-core processor families uniquely deliver the best-in-class performance, functionality and low-power profile required for high-performance, scalable and highly sophisticated security appliances such as Lenovo’s KingGuard family.”

The KingGuard family of security gateways incorporates innovative, proprietary algorithms from Lenovo Security to provide comprehensive unified threat management, intrusion prevention and firewall protection against multiple forms of web attacks, such as hacker intrusions, worms, Trojan horses, viruses and application-layer vulnerabilities in order to prevent network downtime.  In addition, the KingGuard gateways are designed to improve network access speeds through built-in intelligent routing, load balancing, quality-of-service (QoS), bandwidth management and congestion avoidance capabilities to ensure network reliability and redundancy.  These carrier-grade security appliances are capable of protecting large networks with over ten million users by being able to support over twenty new sessions per second and over five million simultaneous connections.  Lenovo Security has received the 2009 Annual CSO (Chief Security Officer) Award, the 2009 CBI Best IT Innovation Award and the 2008 Information Security Green UTM Security Gateway Award.

NetLogic Microsystems’  XLR and XLS multi-core, multi-threaded processors that are powering the KingGuard security gateways offer a rich set of features and functionality with unprecedented performance and power for embedded telecommunications, enterprise, data center, security and storage applications.  These processors integrate up to eight high-performance MIPS64® cores, each with four-way simultaneous multi-threading, for a total of 32 fine-grain processor threads to mitigate latency, improve computational efficiency and throughput for network data plane and control plane processing in security appliances, storage appliances, base stations, eNodeB, RNCs, gateways, switches, routers, ATCA and AMC service cards.  The processors also offer a best-in-class packet management, packet distribution and network accelerator engine, an intelligent Fast Messaging Network™ to maximize on-chip communications bandwidth, a superior memory sub-system, high-speed interconnects, and a broad set of acceleration engines.  This enables NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core processors to support billions of in-flight messages and packet descriptors between all on-chip elements.  The processor family is supported by a comprehensive software development kit (SDK) that contains reference and production-ready software components, which enables customers to accelerate time-to-market.

About NetLogic Microsystems
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL) is a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks.  NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks.  NetLogic Microsystems’ market-leading product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, content processors, network search engines, ultra low-power embedded processors and high-speed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet PHY solutions.  These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).  NetLogic Microsystems is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices and design centers throughout North America, Asia and Europe.  For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call +1-650-961-6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

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