Growing security concerns within the enterprise communication market are challenging chipmakers to develop advanced, silicon-based encryption techniques that will not erode processor performance.. . .
Growing security concerns within the enterprise communication market are challenging chipmakers to develop advanced, silicon-based encryption techniques that will not erode processor performance.

The issue of how best to do this is proving divisive. In one camp, suppliers insist that encryption algorithms are best implemented in software directly into the network processor protocol stack. Another set of networking chipmakers contends that security functions should be addressed through the use of a separate co-processor.

A number of OEMs attending last week's Networld+Interop show here weighed in on the subject, and the majority appear to agree with the latter group that software alone no longer provides the answer.

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