NetLogic Microsystems Announces Production-Ready Layer 7 Software for NETL7™ Knowledge-based Processors 

New Layer 7 software suite supports the rapid design of next-generation security and content-aware networking products using NETL7 knowledge-based processors for the datacenter and enterprise markets

Mountain View, Calif. – July 23, 2007 – NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], the leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors, today announced the availability of a production-ready Layer 7 software suite for it’s NETL7™ Layer 7 knowledge-based processors.  This suite of production-ready tools for the development of products using NetLogic Microsystems’ high-performance NETL7 knowledge-based processors enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop next-generation secure and application-aware networking products more rapidly and improve time-to-market by shortening their software development cycles.

The new Layer 7 software  consists of production-ready compilers, application programming interfaces (APIs), reference code, and advanced software drivers for Layer 7 content inspection acceleration devices such as the NLS1000 and NLS1005 content processors, and is ready for integration into advanced systems that enable security for mission critical Web applications, application acceleration, intelligent load balancing, intrusion prevention and malware scanning at wire speeds.  The advanced APIs, reference code and software drivers allow customers to quickly adapt their own application software to benefit from the acceleration provided by NETL7 knowledge-based processors, while the enhanced compiler allows customers to optimize their signature database for higher performance while minimizing power consumption and solution cost.

 “The Layer 7 software suite will significantly accelerate the pace of design engagements, in turn enabling more OEMs to harness the benefits of NETL7 content processing technology, while significantly reducing the amount of time and engineering resources required by customers to productize a NETL7-based solution,” said Kelvin Khoo, director of strategic marketing at NetLogic Microsystems.  “This allows us to effectively and efficiently support and engage with a much larger set of customers who in turn will be able to bring products to market at much shorter timelines.” 

The Layer 7 software suite is compatible with NetLogic Microsystems’ NETL7 knowledge-based processors. 

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NETL - News), a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Mountain View, California, designs, develops and markets high performance knowledge-based processors for a variety of advanced wireline and mobile wireless networking systems, such as routers, switches, wireless infrastructure equipment, network security appliances, network access equipment and networked storage devices. NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processors employ an advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge or signature database containing information on the network, as well as applications and content that run on the network, to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. Knowledge-based processors from NetLogic Microsystems significantly enhance the ability of networking original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as high-definition video delivery over the Internet (IPTV), voice transmission over the Internet (VoIP), unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPN), rich content delivery over mobile wireless networks, and streaming video and audio. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call 650.961.6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

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