Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking

Network equipment manufacturers have always been focused on producing systems with high availability—achieving five and six 9s of uptime has always been the goal. To achieve this, quality standards and advanced tools were developed to find and remove bugs early in the development cycle. Redundancy strategies were also developed to isolate faults and to enable fast recovery when faults occured in fielded systems.

While minimizing bugs and supporting redundancy are still key to ensuring highly available systems, attacks by hackers have emerged as a new threat to network uptime. Time and time again in recent years, security vulnerabilities in network equipment have been exploited to wreak havoc on networks or steal services. As VoIP and IPTV become commonplace—and the threat of losing revenue grows—it becomes even more critical that network service providers choose equipment hardened against attacks.