Credo, with its 800G MACSec solution-Owl 800, won the Gold Winner, the highest award in the field of “industrial security solutions” under the category of “commercial technology” in the Edison Invention Awards in 2021.

With the development of the times, end-to-end encryption has become more and more common. MACSec products can provide security for data between Ethernet-connected devices. When data packets cross between two locations, MACSec encryption can ensure the security of user/enterprise data from leaving the cloud data center to entering the next data center.

As a member of Credo MACSec series 800G, Owl 800 is the world’s leading security chip. The product can provide MACSec/IPSec functions and can run in Retimer/Gearbox mode. Owl 800 MACSec is suitable for backplane and front panel application scenarios, including cloud-level switches, high-density routing platforms and advanced server network cards (NIC cards).

As cloud computing providers and telecommunications service providers accelerate the adoption of 400Gbps and begin to pay attention to the 800Gbps solution, the market’s demand for MACSec, a specific functional product, continues to increase. In data center network applications, the shift to a fixed CLOS architecture is also increasing the adoption of MACSec, especially in the DCI layer.

Credo’s Owl 800 MACSec can perform data encryption/decryption at a speed of 800 Gigabit per second, and has been widely used by many ultra-large-scale cloud computing companies around the world. The product is based on Credo’s innovative SerDes technology. Under the premise of meeting the customer’s low power consumption requirements, it provides the required bandwidth, scalability and end-to-end signal integrity, and then meets the requirements of up to 800G/s (single channel rate is 28G/56G/112G) connection high-speed network requirements. Owl 800 supports two-way 800G MACSec (16 x 56G PAM4 <-> 16x56G PAM4), using TSMC’s mature 28-nanometer process, which is cost-effective.

Credo’s vice president of global marketing, Scott Feller, said: “We are very honored that Owl 800 has been awarded this excellence award. Credo’s MACSec solution can ensure end-to-end data integrity in high-speed communications.”

In addition, Owl 400 is one of the products of the MACSec solution series. Customers can also obtain IPSec functions by upgrading the firmware version.