FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHELSIO COMMUNICATIONS DELIVERS INDUSTRY’S HIGHEST PERFORMANCE 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER
At Less Than $2,000, Chelsio N110 NIC Accelerates Adoption of 10Gb Ethernet In Networking And Server Applications
SUNNYVALE, CA, AUGUST 4, 2005 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the emerging leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter card technology, today announced the highest performance 10Gb Server Adapter card available on the market, at a price point less than $2,000 each, further driving the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet in networking and storage applications.
The N110 is a half-size PCI-X interface card, a streamlined version of Chelsio’s highly successful T110 host bus adapter. The T110 is still the only 10Gb Ethernet adapter with protocol off-load in silicon, significantly raising the throughput and latency performance bar for the 10Gb Ethernet adapter industry. With a price of just $1,995 (in quantities of 10), the N110 is the lowest-priced and highest-performing 10Gb Ethernet Server Adapter on the market.
In comparative performance testing verified by independent testing lab VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge (Nasdaq: LIOX), Chelsio’s N110 and T110 adapters consistently delivered better throughput (up to 128% higher) and lower latency (up to 71% faster) than the comparable adapters from Intel Corporation and S2io Inc.
VeriTest certified that the testing was performed in a fair and consistent manner, and validated the conclusion that Chelsio’s T110 and N110 have the best performance of the 10Gb Ethernet adapters benchmarked. The full report is available upon request from Chelsio. To get a copy, go to the Chelsio website: www.chelsio.com
With the introduction of the N110, Chelsio is now offering a family of products targeted at different market requirements. The T110, with TCP and iSCSI offload, serves CPU-intensive applications while the N110 is designed for applications that require raw network performance capabilities. Both devices will be showcased this week at the LinuxWorld conference and exposition in San Francisco.
“Today we are starting to see a transition by high performance computing environments to accelerate adoption of this next generation technology,” said Kianoosh Nagshineh, founder and CEO of Chelsio Communications. “Our customers understand the benefits 10Gb Ethernet brings to performance in data centers and across the computing grid, and we will continue to drive the price and performance capabilities of 10Gb Ethernet adapter technology.”
Chelsio achieves the high bandwidth and low latency performance on its cards due to the underlying Terminatorв„ў VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, which delivers numerous advantages over RISC-based multiprocessor system-on-a-chip implementations. The Terminator ASIC can handle more than one million concurrent sessions, and in the T110 card configuration supports up to 64,000 simultaneous connections.
About Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven protocol acceleration technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards with protocol offload, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing applications. For more information, visit the company online at http://www.chelsio.com.
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