Intrusion Detector delivers open-source network security

Using proprietary Meta Traffic Processor, MTP-1G wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System supports open-source network security and monitoring applications. Cards pass Gigabit Ethernet traffic between system's 2 ports with 400 ns latency while performing wire-speed, stateful, packet inspection. When determining whether to capture or block packets, cards can apply up to 1,500 wire-speed stateful policies per packet.

Los Gatos, California - Metanetworks Technologies, Inc. (metanetworks.org), a leading provider of high-speed network security and monitoring hardware, announces its MTP-1G - the world's first wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) specifically designed to support open-source network security and monitoring applications. The MTP-1G uses Metanetworks' Meta Traffic Processor (MTP), a unique network processor that was partially developed using research grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Air Force Rome Laboratories. The MTP is specifically designed to exploit massive, fine-grain, instruction-level parallelism, which is intrinsic to IDPS processing loads. Livio Ricciulli, Metanetworks Technologies' chief scientist, states that, "our MTP cards offer the lowest IPS filtering latency in the world because of our breakthrough processing architecture."

Metanetworks' MTP-1G cards routinely pass Gigabit Ethernet traffic between its two ports with 400 ns latency while performing wire-speed, stateful, packet inspection. When determining whether to capture or block packets, the cards can apply up to 1500 wire-speed stateful policies per packet. When the MTP-1G captures packets, it presents them to the operating system as a standard NIC in promiscuous mode.