What are the benefits of ASIC-powered appliances?

Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is dedicated electronic hardware purpose-built for specific applications. ASIC differs from central processing unit-based hardware in a sense that it adapts easily to parellel and streamlined processing which are the core design principles of most cryptographic ciphers. Therefore, cryptographic operations run on ASIC normally supercedes general purpose microprocessors by 10-100 folds, greatly reducing the time it takes to complete an encryption/decryption task, thus increasing throughput. SCSI and dedicated graphics boards are good analogy of ASIC in security appliances versus computer world. Bloombase Security Platform is the only solution basket having all its family members supporting ASIC-powered cryptographic hardware acceleration.