Hifn Extends Security Processor Leadership Into Communication and Consumer Markets With New SentryXL Family of Security Processors

    SentryXL Sets a New Benchmark as the Industry's Smallest, Most Power

                       Efficient Security Processors



    LOS GATOS, Calif., July 15 /EMWNews-FirstCall/ -- Hifn(TM) (Nasdaq:

HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, today

announced the SentryXL(TM) family of security processors, an addition to

its Applied Services Processors (ASPs), delivering high-performance data

encryption, compression, and hashing in a package of unprecedented size,

power and cost for a new generation of space-, power-, and cost-constrained

communication and consumer products.



    



    The SentryXL product family sets the new benchmark for size and power

consumption as the industry's smallest standalone encryption and

compression accelerator. At only 11mm x 11mm package size and 0.3W of

typical power consumption, the new SentryXL design is completely aligned

with the needs of high density, environmentally-hardened and portable

applications, including wireless base stations, wireless access points,

multi-function networked printers, and portable communication devices.



    Software compatible with Hifn's earlier generations of algorithm

accelerators, SentryXL devices are very easy to drop-in to any system

design. Furthermore, SentryXL devices are pin compatible and provide a

range of price/performance solutions with a single design.



    "Hifn leads the industry in security processor innovation and we

continue to break new ground with smaller and lower power designs," said

Michael Goldgof, Vice President of product marketing at Hifn. "Until now,

the deployment of high performance, strong encryption and compression in

networking, wireless and portable devices has been hampered by power

consumption and size, especially in the consumer and wireless markets. The

new SentryXL family delivers all of the encryption, compression, and

hashing features Hifn is known for without sacrificing performance for

power and size benefits."



    Designed to work with the leading industry CPU architectures like the

X86 and PPC, the Sentry XL can significantly benefit system designs by off

loading from the CPU the repetitive, compute and memory intensive tasks of

encryption, compression and hashing, eliminating system performance

bottlenecks.



    Wireless PicoBaseStations and FemtoCell stations are good examples of

communication products that can benefit from SentryXL devices. It is

estimated that, by 2010, 50% of the wireless traffic will be driven by

increasingly bandwidth hungry services that service providers will roll out

in order to continue to improve Average Revenue per User (ARPU).

Applications will range from SMS and email requiring 40-75kbps per client

device to interactive gaming and web browsing requiring more than 14 Mbps

of bandwidth per client device. Secure, optimized, high-bandwidth backhaul

will be required to support these services in every base station. The most

effective way to deliver these services and improve the bandwidth of the

backhaul links is to offload encryption and compression processing to a

SentryXL ASP and free up CPU cycles and memory bandwidth for end-user

differentiable and value add services.



    The SentryXL product line includes three products -- 7964, 7965 and

7966 -- which deliver 160Mbps to over 550 Mbps of encryption and

compression performance. The SentryXL processors are pin- and

software-compatible, enabling OEMs to leverage a single design into

multiple price/performance products by simply changing the security

processor, thus, significantly lowering time to market and development

cost, as well as providing a seamless upgrade path for evolving market

requirements.



    Built in a highly-efficient BGA package design, the SentryXL processors

take up just one-fourth of the size of Hifn's previous entry-level product.

The SentryXL platform is also a highly integrated design, the only product

in its class to deliver hardware-advantaged encryption, compression, and

hashing in a single chip. The small size and high level of integration have

enabled Hifn to dramatically reduce the cost of the SentryXL products,

opening up new price-sensitive markets to the benefits of high-performance

data encryption and compression, and allowing OEMs to be more competitive

by reducing overall system costs.



    Availability



    The SentryXL processors are available now. Customers interested in

learning more about the SentryXL series should contact Hifn sales at

[email protected] or 408-399-3500.

    About Hifn



    Hifn (Nasdaq: HIFN) delivers the key channel and OEM ingredients for

21st century storage and networking environments. Leveraging over a decade

of leadership and expertise in the development of purpose-built Applied

Service Processors (ASPs), we are a trusted partner to industry leaders for

whom infrastructure innovation in storage and networking is critical to

success. With the majority of secure networked communications flowing

through Hifn technology, the 21st century convergence of storage and

networking drives our product roadmap forward. For more information, please

visit: http://www.hifn.com.



    "Safe Harbor" Statement under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation

Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains forward-looking statements

within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Specifically, statements regarding the Company's future financial

performance including, without limitation, statements related to delivering

an ASP in a package of unprecedented size, power and cost for a new

generation of space-, power-, and cost-constrained communication and

consumer products, the SentryXL product family setting a new benchmark for

size and power consumption, the new SentryXL design is completely aligned

with the needs of high density, environmentally-hardened and portable

applications, SentryXL devices are very easy to drop-in to any system

design, Hifn leading the industry in security processor innovation, The new

SentryXL family delivers all of the encryption, compression, and hashing

features Hifn is known for without sacrificing performance for power and

size benefits, Wireless PicoBaseStations and FemtoCell stations are good

examples of communication products that can benefit from SentryXL devices,

the most effective way to deliver these services and improve the bandwidth

of the backhaul links is to offload encryption and compression processing

to a SentryXL ASP and free up CPU cycles and memory, and opening up new

price-sensitive markets to the benefits of high-performance data encryption

and compression, and allowing OEMs to be more competitive by reducing

overall system costs, are all forward-looking statement within the meaning

of the Safe Harbor that may cause actual results to differ materially from

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