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Platform for Secure Networking
Security: the new key to high availability
Network equipment manufacturers have always been focused on producing systems with high availability—achieving five and six 9s of uptime has always been the goal. To achieve this, quality standards and advanced tools were developed to find and remove bugs early in the development cycle. Redundancy strategies were also developed to isolate faults and to enable fast recovery when faults occured in fielded systems.
While minimizing bugs and supporting redundancy are still key to ensuring highly available systems, attacks by hackers have emerged as a new threat to network uptime. Time and time again in recent years, security vulnerabilities in network equipment have been exploited to wreak havoc on networks or steal services. As VoIP and IPTV become commonplace—and the threat of losing revenue grows—it becomes even more critical that network service providers choose equipment hardened against attacks.
The Platform for Secure Networking combats these vulnerabilities directly by:
- Supporting security protocols for data transmission
- Securing the network device itself
Securing data transmission
The Platform for Secure Networks includes the GHNet TCP/IP network stack. GHNet is a dual mode IPv4/IPv6 stack that supports industry standard security protocols such as SSH, SSL, IPSec, IKE, RADIUS, and a complete set of cryptographic algorithms to support these protocols. The core product is 100% US-Citizen developed and free from foreign influence (FFFI). This is an important factor for certain government and military related networked devices (e.g., Type-1 NSA-approved crypto devices). GHNet is a high performance and extremely scalable stack that can be used in applications ranging from small footprint portable devices to core infrastructure equipment.
Features:
- Mature IPv6 support
- Dual-mode stack
- Extensive security protocol support
- Core product is 100% US-Citizen developed
- BSD 4.4 Socket API
- Optimized for speed and size
- Supports execution in a protected address spaces
- Validated and tested with INTEGRITY™
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