Chelsio Communications Delivers 10 Gig Card

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Sep 2004

Chelsio Communications has announced what it calls the highest performance 10Gb NIC card available at less than $2,000 each.

The N110 is a half-size PCI-X interface card, a streamlined version of Chelsio's T110 host bus adapter. The T110 is the only 1 OGb Ethernet adapter with protocol offload in silicon.

Chelsio said that in comparative performance testing verified by independent testing lab VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge, Chelsio's NIlO and TIlO consistently delivered higher throughput (up to 52 percent) and lower latency (as low as 31 percent) of comparable adapters from Intel and S2io Inc.

With the introduction of the NIlO, Chelsio is now offering a family of products targeted at different market requirements. The TIlO, with TCP and iSCSI offload, serves CPU-intensive applications while the NIlO is designed strictly for applications that require raw performance capabilities.

"Today we are starting to see a transition by high performance computing environments to accelerate adoption of this next generation technology," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, founder and CEO of Chelsio Communications. "Our customers understand the benefits 1 OGb Ethernet brings to performance in data centers and across the computing grid, and we will continue to drive the price and performance capabilities of 1 OGb Ethernet adapter technology."

Chelsio's cards feature the underlying Terminator VLlW (very long instruction word) architecture that the company says delivers advantages over RISC-based multiprocessor system-on-a-chip implementations. The Terminator ASIC can handle more than one million concurrent sessions, enabling the TIlO cards to support up to 64,000 simultaneous connections.

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