Mellanox to acquire network-intelligence company Titan IC
NewsMarch 03, 2020
SUNNYVALE, Calif. Mellanox Technologies, a provider of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Titan IC (Belfast, Northern Ireland), which develops network intelligence (NI) and security technology to accelerate search and big data analytics across a broad range of applications in data centers worldwide.
Titan IC's high-speed RXP hardware network intelligence acceleration engine's ability to simultaneously handle high throughput, rule depth, and complexity is an ideal complement to Mellanox high performance BlueField IPU-based solutions, which include line-rate network, storage, and crypto accelerators at speeds up to 200 Gb/sec, say Mellanox officials. The combination will enable the companies to aim BlueField at a wide range of applications, such as stateful firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection and prevention, deep packet inspection, application recognition, lawful interception, government, logfile analytics, and in-storage search.
“Network intelligence is an important technology when combined with our industry-leading networking portfolio of switches, SmartNICs, and IPUs,” said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO Mellanox Technologies. “Our customers will benefit from the deep analytics and enhanced security that will be delivered by the integration of our best-in-class Ethernet and InfiniBand products and world-leading deep packet inspection and analytics technologies from Titan IC. With this acquisition, our M&A investments total more than $1.2 billion to date and more than $53 million invested in startups to further our intelligent networking strategy.”
“We are pleased to become part of Mellanox and together we will accelerate the pace of innovation and will advance network intelligence to new levels of performance and insight,” said Noel McKenna, CEO, Titan IC. “We have worked with Mellanox for many years to integrate our RXP regular expression processor into their advanced line of BlueField I/O processing units (IPUs). Now as part of Mellanox, we will be able to achieve new capabilities for cyberintelligence, intrusion detection and protection, and advanced data analytics applications.”
