Mellanox is to buy pattern-matching specialist Titan IC of Belfast to accelerate its search and data analytics programmes and strengthen Mellanox’s network intelligence capabilities.

Titan IC’s  team in Belfast will become the centre network intelligence R&D for Mellanox.

“We have worked with Mellanox for many years to integrate our RXP regular expression processor into their advanced line of BlueField I/O Processing Units (IPUs) now we will be able to achieve new capabilities for cyber intelligence, intrusion detection and protection, and advanced data analytics applications, ” says Titan CEO Noel McKenna.

Titan specialises in high-speed complex pattern matching and real-time Internet traffic inspection for advanced cyber security and data analytics applications.

The RXP hardware network intelligence acceleration engine, offloads regular expressions (RegEx) string and malware matching, freeing up CPU cores and delivering faster throughput and increased efficiency.

The RXP engine’s ability to simultaneously handle high throughput, rule depth, and complexity  complements Mellanox’s BlueField IPU based solutions, which include line-rate network, storage, and crypto accelerators at speeds up to 200 Gb/s.

The combination delivers capabilities for a wide range of applications such as stateful firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection and prevention, deep packet inspection, application recognition, lawful interception, government, logfile analytics, in-storage search and many more.