Wedge Networks Unveils Multi-Gigabit Subsonic Engine

 

Officials at the company said the first phase of the Subsonic Engine innovation involves Lightweight Massive Threading Engine which is designed to handle large-scale concurrency of network traffic sessions at speeds 10 times faster than other current technology while applying full deep content inspection. It also supports company’s network web security appliance, the BeSecure Web Gateway (News - Alert).

 

Hongwen Zhang, President and CEO of Wedge Networks said that, the innovative Subsonic Engine is being developed to address critical performance issues facing NBCI applications in high-volume application networks, server farms and cloud computing centers.

 

He said that, by leveraging new microprocessor architectures, such as Intel's (News - Alert) Nehalem processor, Wedge Networks' Subsonic Engine enables ultra-high speed deep content inspection for many mission critical applications.

 

Essentially, this new engine will increase the speed of web content scanning (reconstruction, inspection and manipulation) and allow for future resource intensive services to ensure all content on high-volume networks are scanned quickly and thoroughly for threats without disrupting business continuity and safeguarding server farms and cloud computing centers entirely.

 

The subsonic engine contains a set of architecture components that work in tandem to delivery performance: a multi-thread network data processing mechanism that scales to tens of thousands concurrent data sessions; an application content recognition module that dramatically reduces the network data processing latency; and an adaptive resource allocation algorithm that improve the overall processing performance for all the data sessions.

 

"With the increased threat of attacks from viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware, the traditional desktop based anti-virus software protection or unified threat management appliances are not enough; customers must deploy multi-layer and specialized protection to stay ahead of these threats," continued Zhang.

 

More than 75 percent of Internet attacks are happening through Web applications and with traditional security solutions being insufficient, there is an established need for enterprise-grade NBCI engines that perform inline analysis, says the company.

 

Zhang concluded saying, “Wedge Networks is focused on developing the Subsonic Engine and other innovations to meet high-volume network challenges. We have started phased implementations of the Subsonic Engine and expect completion by end of 2009."