Mellanox to Acquire Titan

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Titan IC Systems, developer of network intelligence (NI) and security technology to accelerate search and big data analytics across a range of applications in data centers worldwide.

The acquisition will strengthen Mellanox’s network intelligence capabilities delivered through the company’s advanced ConnectX and BlueField families of SmartNIC and I/O Processing Unit (IPU) solutions. Titan IC’s team in Belfast, Northern Ireland will become the center of advanced network intelligence R&D for Mellanox.

“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. “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 IB 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 start-ups 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 cyber intelligence, intrusion detection and protection, and advanced data analytics applications.”

Titan IC is in high-speed complex pattern matching and real-time Internet traffic inspection for cyber security and data analytics applications.

The RXP hardware network intelligence acceleration engine, offloads regular expressions (RegEx) string and malware matching, freeing up CPU cores and delivering faster throughput and increased efficiency. The RXP engine’s unique 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 200Gb/s. The combination delivers network intelligence capabilities making BlueField the solution for a range of applications such as stateful firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection and prevention, deep packet inspection, application recognition, lawful interception, government, logfile analytics, in-storage search and more.

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