Freescale's VortiQa software is designed to help you simplify your migration to multicore processors for networking and communications equipment. Optimized for QorIQ communications platforms and PowerQUICC processors, production-ready VortiQa software shortens product development cycles and boosts application performance for multicore designs built on Freescale silicon platforms.

Solution-Centric Approach

Along with VortiQa software, Freescale also delivers a comprehensive solution-centric approach for networking applications that provides flexibility and choice for vertical market solutions. Our solution-centric approach combines VortiQa software together with our QorIQ platforms, PowerQUICC processors, and joint collaborations with a broad range of well-respected industry partners.

VortiQa Software Product Features

VortiQa software delivers integrated security and networking functionality such as Firewall, IPSec-VPN, IPS, Anti-virus and Anti-spam. The software addresses specific vertical markets such as wireless and wired infrastructure equipment, UTM and security appliances, small business gateways and SOHO/residential gateways, and enables threat protection, secure access, high availability, convergence and management in your system.

Freescale offers VortiQa software product lines for:

• Service Provider equipment
• Enterprise equipment
• Small Business gateways
• SOHO/Residential gateways

The features on these product lines include:

Components/Modules	Service Provider Equipment	Enterprise Equipment	Small Business Gateways	SOHO/Residential Gateways	Description
Common utilities and basic networking functions					Provides common software infrastructure facilities and support for several local area and wide area network protocols; Functions include management engines for comprehensive configuration, logging and monitoring
Stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall & Network Address Translation (NAT)					Provides SPI firewall policy access, protection from cyber attacks and NAT
Anti-virus/anti-spam detection and prevention					Offers anti-virus/anti-spam scanning, detection & blocking
Intrusion prevention system (IPS) & deep packet inspection	*				Offers protection from threats and attacks using using protocol/traffic anomaly and signature based rules
IPSec virtual private network (VPN)					Termination function supports IKEv1 and IKEv2 encryption protocols for automatic key negotiation and remote user access
High availability					Offers capabilities of active-active and active-backup high availability capabilities and clustering of multiple platforms running Freescale solutions
Configuration management interfaces					Provides graphical and command-line based interfaces for configuration of network gateway functions and provision equipment
Quality of service (QoS) & traffic management	*				Offers QoS functions and traffic management (shaping and policing) capabilities
Virtual security gateway (VSG)					Offers multiple virtual (logical) security gateways in one single physical platform

*Available in future releases
Note: More check marks represent additional functionality levels for that feature