NetCee Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of its Ultra Packet Processor, an ultra-high-speed, deep-packet inspection engine with broad applicability in protocol analysis and pattern recognition. This processor can identify and process over one trillion types of protocol at data rates of more than 50 Gb/s — five times faster than the current industry standard — 10 Gb/s. The need to identify a trillion types of protocol arises from all the possible combinations of protocols that can be identified from Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) to Layer 7 (Application Layer). Applications include IPv6 routing lookup tables at ultra high speed, high-speed protocol analyzers, stateful protocol identification and flow — as well as application and session monitoring. Until the introduction of the Ultra Packet Processor, packet processing techniques were either expensive or operated at low speeds. This Linux-based operating system runs on low cost, off-the-shelf hardware. With its ability to run at greater than 50 Gb/s, the Ultra Packet Processor addresses the challenges that customers face with high-speed packet matching and classification. And although today's devices can identify real time application protocols, they can neither report nor maintain the information about the state of an individual connection and associated QoS parameters — delay, packet loss, jitter, out of sequence packets — in the millions of VOIP or video connections that traverse the multitude of Routers across the Internet. Based in Fremont, Calif., NetCee Systems is a developer of embedded networking solutions for enterprises. Its other solutions address high-speed QoS and the analysis and improvement of QoS of Ethernet/TCP/IP/UDP/RTP traffic over LAN and WANs based upon its deep-packet inspection technology.