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Intelligent Platforms

WANic™ 6354 Packet Processor

Intelligent High-Performance OCTEON II™
Ethernet Packet Processor PCI Express Card
Features
Interface Support
•t Supports the high-performance Cavium
OCTEON II™ CN6335-AAP 6-core, 1.1GHz
processor
•t 4GB of high-speed DDR3 SDRAM Packet
Memory via VLP Mini-RDIMMs
•t 512MB of high-speed DDR3 SDRAM HFA/DFA
memory for the Regular Expression Engine
•t 4 front panel access ports of Gigabit
Ethernet (SFP SR, LR)
•t 32MB of SDRAM Persistent Memory
• t 2GB USB Flash Disk (Up to 16GB optional)
•t 4 lane PCI Express Generation 2
host interface
Compliance/Form Factor
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PCI-SIG – PCI Express CEM R2.0 compliant
PCI-SIG – PCI Express Base R2.1 compliant
PCI Express single slot card
Designed for NEBS compliance

Software Support available
•t Popular GE Intelligent Platforms SDK
supporting Linux & Simple Executive, utilities
and device drivers
•t Embedded boot loader and diagnostics (POST)
Applications
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Session Border Controller (SBC)
Secure Access (IPsec)
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Traffic Management
Firewall

•t Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) &
Lawful Intercept
•t Ethernet/IP Test & Measurement Equipment
•t Low latency gateways and packet filters
Product Reliability
•t Reliability calculated via Telcordia
SR332 Issue 2
•t Technical support for OEM customers
and resellers
The WANic™ 6354 is a high performance Packet
Processor based on the Cavium OCTEON II™
multi-core processor. Ideal for IP communications
networks, the WANic 6354 can be configured
to enable a wide variety of applications such
as demanding wire-speed communications for
secure IP access, network encryption, network
monitoring and Deep Packet Inspection.
The WANic 6354 provides a 6-core OCTEON II
CN6335-AAP Applications Acceleration Processor with 2 MBytes of shared L2 cache memory,
delivering up to 4 Gb/s line-speed packet processing for Layers 2-7. Up to 4 GBytes of highspeed DDR3 memory is implemented using VLP
Mini-RDIMM modules. Also, 512 Mbytes of DDR3
SDRAM is implemented for Regular Expression
pattern matching engine memory (HFA/DFA). 32
MB of SDRAM is available for use as Persistent
Memory in storing processor state information.
Up to 16 GBytes of eUSB Flash Disk are optional
for bulk memory storage.
To optimize application performance, the CN6335
supports a dual-issue, eight-stage pipeline and
optimized latencies as well as auto instruction
pre-fetching and advanced data prefetching
features to minimize memory delays.
The WANic 6354 supports high-speed communications via a four lanes PCI-Express Generation 2
bus interface to the host.

IEEE 1588 support and hardware timestamping
provide time synchronization for Ethernet. Hardware timestamping with 100 nanosecond or less
granularity, such as that provided by the OCTEON
II, is of particular interest to folks involved in
monitoring and evaluating Ethernet traffic since
it facilitates reporting flow/timing details for the
network being monitored.
Four front panel ports with SFP connectors support IEEE 10/100/1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet as
well as short and long-reach optical.

Software
A comprehensive development package designed to improve time-to-revenue is offered
with the WANic 6354. It is optimized to simplify
application integration for multi-core processor
development environments.
At its lowest level, the software includes a Universal Boot (U-Boot) loader and comprehensive
Power On Self Test (POST) firmware embedded in
the product.
A Software Development Kit (SDK) and sample
application code, designed to exercise the
packet processor, is available to aid in application development. The GE Intelligent Platforms
SDK includes a Linux Operating System, drivers
and user application diagnostics, both Linux and
Simple Executive examples. It loads user application code from a TFTP server, Flash memory or
via the host PCI Express bus, and includes a welldefined Application Program Interface (API) to
ease application development. Support for other
operating systems is available upon request.
To further improve customer time-to-market,
optional software modules such as an IPv4/
IPv6 stack, IPSec, QoS management, multicast
forwarding, IP filtering, VLAN, L2 tunneling and
application programming frameworks are available from GE and/or its partners.