InterNiche Technologies Rolls Out Latest Embedded TCP/IP Stack

11/18/2003 - InterNiche Technologies announced immediate availability of NicheStackTM and NicheLiteTM, Release 2.0. These suites of royalty-free, source code TCP/IP protocol stacks, network security modules and device management packages are designed for the requirements of today's embedded designs – the software is extremely compact and highly configurable. NicheStack and NicheLite's functionality and footprint scales for use from small low-power handheld devices to next-generation infrastructure and enterprise equipment designs. Advanced features such as, IPSec and SSL/TLS network security, full device management and rapid IP-failover makes InterNiche, Release 2.0 the choice for security and high availability development projects.

For effortless integration with existing designs, NicheStack, Release 2.0 TCP/IPv4 is backwards compatible with NicheStack, Rel. 1.91 implementations. More importantly, NicheStack 2.0 introduces an extended set of APIs to support and manage dual IPv4/IPv6 network-enabled devices.

"NicheStack 2.0 introduces an extended set of APIs to support and manage dual IPv4/IPv6 network-enabled devices," said Brian Ramsey, InterNiche's Vice President of Marketing. "Embedded developers can use NicheStack to design and ship a TCP/IPv4 product, and then by then upgrading to the NicheStack IPv4/IPv6 Dual stack product, can add TCP/IPv6 functionality without having to rework their TCP/IPv4 code."

Seamless Integration with IPSec, IKE and SSL/TLS Network Security
InterNiche's IPSec and SSL/TLS network security SDKs are natural extensions of NicheStack 2.0. InterNiche IPSec and SSL implementations are security toolkits allowing developers to quickly add high-performance security and VPN capabilities to embedded devices. They provide:

  • Strong packet encryption (Keeps sensitive transactions and communications private)
  • Data Integrity (Protects data transmission from third-party alterations)
  • Authentication (Assures that the device is legitimate)
  • Nonrepudiation (Validates transactions to authenticate intent)
  • Identity Protection (Protects against 'spoofing' and 'replay')
  • Modular Architecture (Allows easy integration with hardware accelerators)

NicheStack 2.0 includes new options for secure device management. A new version of InterNiche's unique compact HTTP server technology, WebPortTM SSL , and an enhanced NicheToolTM network management application new and SSL-enabled device operational, administration and management alternatives. Now, users can use a secured web browser interface to manage NicheStack-enabled devices with the same encryption and security that they use on a daily basis to manage their financial transactions. Release 2.0 also includes a collection of recent updates that relate to recent CERT security advisories.

Guaranteed Interoperability and RFC Compliance
Release 2.0 maintains that high level of commitment to interoperability and open standards compliance and provides additional protocol support options:

  • NicheStack TCP/IPv4 now includes IP Filtering
  • WebPort/SSL is a new software package that includes the proven InterNiche embedded Web Server with our SSL/TLS toolkit to make device management both easy and secure
  • WebPort and WebPort/SSL HTTP Server packages now include the Form-Based File Upload functionality -- files can be uploaded to an embedded device with WebPort, resulting in a cleaner design, easy SSL security and a small footprint
  • Portable PPP has been enhanced with the Mobile IPv4 Configuration Options for PPP-ICMP
  • The InterNiche SNMP device management software packages were updated to include the latest SNMP core standards, as well as, the Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework
  • NicheStack and ChronOS (µC/OS-II) RealView Debugger plug-in modules now ship with ARM CPU-specific licenses. By opening OS and TCP/IP awareness windows, the developer has immediate debug access to InterNiche source code, RTOS objects, critical network parameters and trace information. When used with the ARM Development Suite and RealView Debugger these modules greatly simplify the integration of network applications and enable the development cutting edge network devices.
  • The NicheTool device management application, which is included at no cost with the InterNiche WebPort HTTP Server software, has been enhanced and now includes an updated CPU Profiling page.

Availability
NicheStack 2.0 is available as highly portable "C"-language source code for all current embedded 8, 16 and 32-bit CPU/MPU and MCU architectures, IDE platforms, embedded operating systems and RTOSs. It ships with example ports for Intel-i32 / Microsoft Windows development platforms, as well as for a number of popular hardware evaluation platforms and toolchains.

About InterNiche
InterNiche Technologies has been developing and licensing networking management and configuration software for embedded systems since 1989. Hundreds of thousands of products depend on InterNiche software as part of their core functionality. Customers include companies such as 3COM, Ericsson, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Nortel Networks, Raytheon, Samsung, Siemens, and many more. For more information please contact sales@iniche.com or visit InterNiche on the web at www.iniche.com.

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