RSA Conference™ 2025

SmartNIC and IPU Solutions for Network Security

At RSA Conference™ 2025, we are thrilled to be demonstrating how SmartNIC and IPU solutions can accelerate network security applications

Accelerate network and security applications dramatically
Napatech SmartNICs and Link-Inline™ Software provide a hardware-based solution for accelerating network and security applications dramatically increasing application performance while reducing CPU consumption.

Scale critical networking use cases
The Link-Inline™ Software provides a processing architecture which offloads and accelerates flow aware application dataplanes offering the ability to scale open source and custom applications to >100 Gbps in standard servers with lower complexity and enhanced scalability than alternatives. Link-Inline™ Software supports a broad range of applications and use cases – and can immediately improve an organization’s ability to scale critical networking use cases.

Link-Security™ Software for Napatech F2070X IPU
Napatech’s integrated hardware-plus-software solution, comprising the Link-Security™ software stack running on the F2070X IPU, addresses this problem by offloading the TLS protocol from the host CPU to an IPU while maintaining full software compatibility at the application level. Napatech’s security offload solution not only frees up host CPU cores which would otherwise be consumed by security protocols but also delivers significantly higher performance than a software-based implementation. This significantly reduces data center CAPEX, OPEX and energy consumption. The Napatech solution also introduces a security layer into the system, isolating system-level infrastructure processing from applications and revenue-producing workloads. This increases protection against cyber-attacks, which reduces the likelihood of the data center suffering security breaches and high-value customer data being compromised, while allowing customers full control of host system resources.

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