Technology Summary

An Overview of Accolade’s FPGA-based Host CPU Offload Technology

Accolade Technology provides the most technologically advanced FPGA-based 1-100GE PCIe Host CPU Offload SmartNIC’s and 1U Host CPU Offload Platforms available in the market today. Accolade’s Advanced Cybersecurity Acceleration Suite (ACAS) Firmware IP and Software enables mission critical, high performance and scalable (up to 400G) OEM customer applications in the Cybersecurity and Network Monitoring markets. Accolade’s customers are global leaders in network monitoring & cybersecurity as well as in the network test and measurement, telecom, government and military markets. Through it’s ACAS technology, Accolade powers market leading SmartNIC products from key technology partners including Achronix and Xilinx. ACAS powers Achronix VectorPath™ 4x100G and Xilinx Alveo™ Accelerators/SmartNICs.

ANIC Adapters

Accolade adapters are available in a variety of port configurations with speeds ranging from 1 to 100 Gbps (see Table 1). Each adapter performs lossless packet capture and a variety of acceleration functions such as time stamping, packet filtering, and flow classification.

wdt_ID Speed 1G 10G 10G 10G 10G/40G 10G/40G 100G 100G 100G
1 Model 4Ku 20ku 40ku 40kq 80ku ATLAS-1100 Service Node ANIC-200KFlex ANIC-100Kq ANIC-200Kq
2 Port/Type 4X1G SFP 2X10G SFP+ 4X10G SFP+ 1X40G QSFP+ 4X10G SFP+ 2X40G QSFP+ 8X10G SFP+ 4x10G SFP+ 1x40G QSFP+ 2x100G QSFP28 2x40G QSFP28 1X100G QSFP28 2X100G QSFP28
3 PCIe Interface Gen3 x8 Gen3 x8 Gen3 x8 Gen3 x8 Gen3 x8 Gen3 x8 Gen3 x16 Gen3 x16 Gen3 x16
4 Dimensions(H x L inches) 4.25 x 6.5   4.25 x 6.25 4.25 x 6.25 4.25 x 6.25 4.25 x 6.25 1.75 x12.28x14 4.25 x 6.5 4.25 x 10.5 4.25 x 10.5
5 Memory 32MB 4G 4G 4G 4G 16/32G 8G 12G 12G
6 Timestamp 5.7 nS 5.7 nS 5.7 nS 5.7 nS 5.7 nS 5.7 nS 4 nS 4 nS 4 nS
7 100% Packet
Capture
8 Gigamon, AristaTimestamp
9 Packet Merging
10 Packet Parsing

Table 1: ANIC Adapters

Network traffic is captured via an Ethernet interface, processed by the onboard FPGA and then intelligently steered directly to the appliance’s (host) memory for processing by the security or networking application. For multi-core CPU based appliances, the adapter intelligently distributes traffic to all available CPU cores thereby maximizing performance and efficiency.

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About Accolade

Accolade is the technology leader in FPGA-based Host CPU Offload and 100% Packet Capture PCIe NIC’s and Scalable 1U Platforms. Accolade’s line of 1-100GE products enable 100% packet capture, flow classification, flow shunting, deduplication, packet filtering and more. Our customers are global leaders in network monitoring & cybersecurity applications as well as in the network test and measurement, telecom and video stream monitoring markets.

FPGA Acceleration Features

100% Packet Capture | Flow Classification | Flow Shunting | Precise Time Stamping | Packet Merging | Packet Slicing | Packet Parsing | Packet Filtering | Deduplication | Host Packet Buffer | Packet Steering | Direct Memory Access (DMA) | Statistics (RMON1)

Free Product Evaluation

Resolve all your host CPU offload bottlenecks. Share Your Technical Requirements with our FPGA and software experts to tailor the optimal solution. Accolade offers a 60 day free product evaluation for qualified customers to fully test and evaluate our products.