Securing the Network's Leading Edge

For more about Expedient, see www.expedient.com
For more about Intel Ethernet, see www.intel.com/go/ethernet
compromises between security and
performance that their customers would
otherwise have to regard as a simple fact
of life. The company innovates around
Intel AES-NI, a core technology supported
in the latest Intel Xeon processors that
dramatically accelerates encryption and
decryption performance.
Support for Intel AES-NI was introduced
with the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series
for mainstream two-way servers and the
Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family for scale-
up servers with four processors or more.
This technology removes the temptation
by end customers to use weaker or more
limited encryption, delivering better
protection for secure web transactions
and enterprise applications. Moreover,
because the instructions are executed
“As a cloud service provider, Expedient regularly has large, sensitive data
sets in motion. Because of this, Expedient requires a significant amount
of cost-effective bandwidth coupled with high-end encryption—that’s
why we’ve standardized on Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit Converged Network
Adapters and Intel AES-NI.”
- Alex Rodriguez, VP, Systems Engineering and Product Development, Expedient
in hardware, many software-based
vulnerabilities are avoided, providing
an extra measure of protection from
software-based attacks.
Expedient offers Intel AES-NI functionality
as a key component of its ability to help
its customers secure their data wherever
it resides while also maintaining the ability
to adopt forward-looking solutions such as
those based on cloud computing.
The continuing cadence of Intel design
advances such as Intel Ethernet and Intel
AES-NI supports innovation by Expedient
and other implementers. As that progress
continues, joint solutions will deliver
new value to end customers and drive
advances in cloud computing and other
usage models to improve performance,
cost-efciency, and the capabilities of
the computing industry as a whole.
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 ResultsreportedbyExpedientCommunications.TestCongurations:
 •DellPowerEdge*R710ServerbasedontwoIntel
®
Xeon
®
processorsE5520at2.26GHz,72GBRAM
 •DellPowerEdgeR710ServerbasedontwoIntel
®
Xeon
®
processorsX5650at2.66GHz,144GBRAM
 •DellPowerEdge*R720ServerbasedontwoIntel
®
Xeon
®
processorsE5-2680at2.7GHz,64GBRAM
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Results reported by Expedient Communications.
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