Here goes all my research on Atalla.
To start with here is the link to HP Atalla NSP (Network Security Processor) - www.atalla.com.
A good introduction to Atalla NSP is here. This talks about the new HP Atalla Ax150 NSP product line, a successor of Atalla Ax100 NSP. Hew 'x' can be either 8 or 9 or 10 corresponding to entry-level, mid-range and high-end model respectively.
A while paper by HP which titles "Combining Key Management with triple-DES to maximize security" talks about the vunerability of 3-DES as a way to protect data. It is already known that with the computing power available DES was already broken at the start of this centuary.
