BroadWeb Joins eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance to Drive Leadership Network Content Security Software Technologies for Multi-Core Processors

Taiwan - April 28, 2010 - BroadWeb Corporation, a leading provider of network Deep-Packet-Inspection solutions, today announced that it has become a member of the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance, a premier industry organization founded to drive best-in-class innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development.  Supported by a broad base of world-class hardware and software providers, the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance serves as the foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using industry-leading multi-core processors. 

“Developing and enhancing software performance on multi-core processors require significant innovation and R&D investment for the industry as a whole”, said Dr. Terence Liu, CEO of BroadWeb Corporation. “The eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance is expected to bring tremendous value to its members in numerous aspects, including expanding business opportunities and technology collaboration.  This should benefit the whole industry, including the customers, users and developers, and we are excited to participate in this Alliance.”

BroadWeb commits to become a one-stop-shop of Deep-Packet-Inspection solutions including Intrusion Prevention, Anti-Virus, and Network Application Identification software and their signature database. These solutions significantly increase the visibility and control over the network. One typical use case is to purify the network traffic and  apply appropriate policies to different kinds of network applications. In addition to network security, it can be extended to bandwidth management and accounting through its capability of identifying more than 2,000+ network applications.

“BroadWeb is a leading provider of Threat Prevention and Network Application Identification software solutions, and we welcome BroadWeb as a valuable member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance,” said Behrooz Abdi, executive vice president and general manager at NetLogic Microsystems, a founding member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance.  “By having a community of technology innovators who are respective leaders in their areas of expertise, the Alliance creates a platform on which these developers can innovate to create new, breakthrough applications that can take full advantage of the superior performance and functionality of multi-core processors.”

As a founding member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, NetLogic Microsystems (NASDAQ: NETL) is committed to an open programming model for its family of market-leading multi-core, multi-threaded processors to allow greater access and tighter coupling between networking software and the XLR®, XLS® and XLP™ multi-core processors.  This enables significant improvements in the application development efficiency of software code and overall system performance.  In addition, this enables the development of new enhanced services and applications for next-generation Internet networks that are highly optimized for multi-core, multi-threaded processors.

For more information about the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, please visit eNsembleAlliance.org.

About BroadWeb
BroadWeb' Corporation is a market leader in network content security technology dedicated to creating products that enables the protection on application-layer level, including hacker's detection and prevention, worm/virus protection, and information security enforcement. BroadWeb has also been focusing on the development of application-centric classification in order to increase visibility into user behaviors and control impacts of bandwidth-consuming applications. To enable policy management at the application behavior level, BroadWeb provides a complete solution based on sophisticated packet inspection, traffic classification, and bandwidth management technologies.