Cisco partners with Red Creek on IPsec work

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - CISCO Systems Inc. last week signed a development pact with Red Creek Communications Inc. (Newark, Calif.) to integrate Red Creek's PCI-based Ravlin security technology into Cisco's Pix Firewall systems. The deal with Red Creek is part of Cisco's strategy to standardize in both hardware and Internetwork Operating System firmware on the IPsec security-adjunct protocol for Internet Protocol, an area in which Red Creek is a specialist.

Red Creek's CryptoCore architecture merges encryption, compression, key management and secure tunneling duties in small hardware platforms-the Ravlin family-that range in access speeds from 4 to 155 Mbits/second. Red Creek was an early supporter of both IPsec...