Arabella Software, a leading supplier of “Customized Linux Solutions” for embedded applications based on Freescale’s processors, announced the availability of Arabella Secure Linux for the Freescale PowerQUICCTM communications processors with integrated security engines. With its highly optimized version of the Linux “Native IPsec†package, Arabella offers its customers performance on a par with high-end proprietary IPsec packages, but for a small portion of the cost.
Native IPsec is an open-source IPsec implementation that is available in Linux kernels from version 2.6 and on. It provides a complete and standard implementation of the popular IPsec protocol suite. Arabella has optimized the Native IPsec packages for embedded applications and integrated them with its own version of device drivers for the Freescale security processors in order to provide the leading version of Native IPsec for Freescale products. Arabella Secure Linux includes support for Native IPsec as well as other security related applications including NAT, firewall, and SSH.