Interpeak Has IP v4/v6 stack for Moto StarCore

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(02/14/03, 12:08:34 AM EDT)

Stockholm, Sweden -- Looking at the increased use of digital signal processors in a wide range of network edge applications such as voice over IP telephony gateways and wireless infrastructure systems  Interpeak SA has released a new version of its IPLITE TCP/IP v4 and v6 stack, tailored to Motorola's StarCore-based family of Digital Signal Processors.

The dual stack allows DSP-based systems based on this implementation to shift from the current 32 bit IPv4 protocol stack to the next generation IPv6 128 bit TCP/IP stack to  provide an almost unlimited amount of IP addresses, necessary to enable the future expansion of the IP Telephony and 3G wireless networks. It also employs the industry standard IPSec protocol to enable secure communication over the non-secure Internet.

The Motorola "Network-Ready" StarCore architecture-based MSC8101 was selected by Interpeak as a reference platform for the DSP edition of the IPLITE stack,  said Johan Fornaeus, CEO of Interpeak AB because of its ability to handle time-consuming cryptographic calculations used in the IPSec and IKE security protocols. Since it contains a separate on-chip Communications Processor Module (CPM), the MSC8101 easily interfaces to Time-Division Multiplexed (TDM) highways, Ethernet, and Asynchronous Transfer mode (ATM) backbones, he said.

The IPLITE TCP/IP stack is scalable to allow undesired functionality to be removed and thus creating a minimum footprint. Accdording to the company, users with extensive communications requirements have the possibility to upgrade to Interpeak IPNET, a full-featured routing stack using the same API as IPLITE.

IPLITE for the Motorola MSC8101 is available as a drop-in solution for the OSEck real-time operating system from OSE Systems Inc. of San Jose, Ca., running on all boards supported by the RTOS. Since IPLITE only requires a minimum of RTOS support, it can also easily be interfaced to in-house operating systems and control software.

For more information about this product go to www.interpeak.com.

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