Optimized encryption and performance

Cisco Silicon One offers robust security for AI workloads in scale-out networks by supporting both IPsec and MACsec standards.

It features a patent-pending format that combines the advantages of MACsec and IPsec, tailored for RDMA workloads with load balancing. This format provides native RDMA support, encapsulating all packet formats without the limitations of IPsec, which is restricted to IANA types.

Additionally, it ensures low latency through cut-through functionality, surpassing IPsec, and enhancing load balancing and job completion time (JCT) with entropy fields that remain visible, unlike IPsec and MACsec.