The MACsec-IP-160 (EIP-160) is an IP family for accelerating MACsec up to 100 Gbps, serving single channel Ethernet designs. The MACsec-IP-160 is a high-performance streaming MACsec frame processing engine that provides hardware acceleration for the complete MACsec frame transform along with frame classification and statistics counter updates. Once the MACsec-IP-160 is configured, no CPU is required for processing tasks.

MACsec is ideally positioned to provide secure WAN (Layer-2) interconnect without the need for routing, allowing networks to be secured from the Inside Secure. MACsec-IP-160 use cases include: protecting links for cloud computing, data center interconnect, network appliances providing enterprise layer 2 security, automotive interconnect, ethernet PHY devices with embedded MACsec support, end-station security solutions for laptops, PCs, printers and network servers.