LSI to provide content processing technology for networking and storage applications

LSI Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Technology Innovation award winner, today announced the expansion of its offering to include content processing solutions for the Microsoft® Silverlight™ platform. Initially based on video acceleration technology, the offering will now include the LSI™ Tarari® family of content processor solutions. This family is a comprehensive set of solutions providing security, quality of service, content-based billing and bandwidth management functions. The addition of these hardware acceleration technologies enhances Silverlight to provide high-performance networking, storage, audio and video capabilities in various Microsoft operating systems as well as for Linux® and the Mac OS®.
 
LSI solutions will provide additional security to enterprise and content creators while enhancing system performance with the Silverlight platform. LSI offers capabilities to Microsoft customers that result in shorter time to market in a more secure environment for developers creating complex video applications for the online video, broadcast and high definition DVD markets. The LSI-provided silicon components for Silverlight result in a more secure, high-performance system for content developers and hardware OEMs.     
 
Previously, LSI adapted its deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to create a deep frame inspection (DFI) capability. Now, Microsoft customers can take full advantage of the content processing capability as well. While DPI looks for viruses and intrusive code in packets, DFI examines each frame of video to calculate what has changed from the previous frame. The combined result is a compressed video stream – up to 10 to 1 – that enables richer video formats such as high definition to be streamed over the Internet or corporate networks yet saved securely and efficiently on storage systems while still maintaining a high level of video quality.
 
Web developers now can design new applications that efficiently include secured video content that can be merged with live data to create a layered application of multiple data types. Previously, it was time consuming to create and secure those applications because of the long encoding time for video objects. The implementation of LSI technology in Silverlight enables acceleration of the underlying Microsoft® Windows Media® codec while maintaining a high degree of secure video quality for standard or high definition output on a fully compliant, production ready, Windows Media VC-1-based codec software development kit (SDK) platform. 
 
“LSI and Microsoft first teamed up in the implementation of video acceleration technology for the Silverlight platform and now we are taking the next step in providing content processing capabilities,” said Jim Wilson, director of engineering programs, Network Components Group, LSI. “LSI-supplied technologies will enable Microsoft content processing applications to run at the highest speeds delivering efficient storage, networking and video solutions on the Microsoft platform.”
 
Brian Goldfarb, group product manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp., said, “Microsoft is pleased to have LSI expand its capabilities to enable the key applications Microsoft delivers to its customers.”