FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHELSIO LAUNCHES SECOND GENERATION 10Gb ETHERNET AND iSCSI ADAPTERS FOR NETWORK, STORAGE AND CLUSTERING
Easy To Use and Robust, Chelsio’s High Performance Adapters Now Support The Most Aggressive 10GbE Pricing In The Industry
Sunnyvale, CA, February 7, 2005 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the established leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet server adapters and protocol acceleration technology, today announced its second generation family of 10GbE and iSCSI adapters, with industry-leading performance and aggressive volume OEM pricing as low as $1,295 that is expected to speed the adoption rate for 10Gb Ethernet in enterprise applications.
Chelsio’s T210 Protocol Engine and N210 Server Adapter are software-compatible upgrades from the first generation T110 and N110 cards, respectively, which have been shipping since early 2004.? Additionally, Chelsio is debuting its T204 Protocol Engine, a 4-port Gigabit Ethernet Protocol Engine targeted for storage applications that may not yet require 10Gb performance.
The OEM pricing for the new adapters is the most aggressive in the industry.? The N210 server adapter is available in high volume for $1,295.? The T210 Protocol Engine, the only 10GbE adapter shipping today with TCP/IP offload (TOE) capability, is volume priced at $1995.?? The T204 is volume priced at $795.? With its continuous silicon integration, Chelsio expects to halve these prices every twelve months.
Chelsio’s 10Gb Ethernet adapters with protocol acceleration are already deployed in dozens of high-performance computing environments today and are being designed in at several leading OEMs.? Chelsio’s 10Gb Ethernet adapters have been proven as robust and stable with the industry’s highest performance, as demonstrated by recently establishing the Internet2 Land Speed Record.? Chelsio’s 10GbE TOE and iSCSI accelerator were first to market in 2004 and now with its 2nd generation silicon is even easier to deploy and supports the mature price structure announced today.
Zeus Kerravala, vice president of research at The Yankee Group, said?”The market for 10Gb Ethernet appears to be heating up, and the availability of?10-GbE?adapters with protocol offload?enables the?unification of?local area networks, storage and high performance clusters into a single unified Ethernet network.? Protocol offload greatly improves server CPU cycles, and that?is the?performance bottleneck in high speed networking today.”
At 10Gbps rates, it’s widely accepted that CPU throughput limits performance.? Chelsio’s TOE enables higher CPU throughput, extending the application performance of servers and resulting in lower total cost of ownership for data centers.
Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio, said ?Our OEM partners are very interested in the convergence of LANs, SANs and clustering fabrics onto a unified 10Gb Ethernet network.? Fiber Channel has now lost its performance advantage over Ethernet due to our protocol offload and history shows us that Ethernet will be the ultimate winner over proprietary and niche networking technologies.
Our Terminator architecture has had extensive stress testing with our OEM partners.? It is very robust and stable, and it is ready for volume deployments,? Naghshineh added.? “Our offload engine adapter is especially easy to use, requiring no application modification.”
John Joseph, vice president of marketing,?EqualLogic, said?”We are?currently testing the Chelsio protocol offload engine and have found it very easy to use for TOE/iSCSI acceleration.?? We are committed to evaluating all the latest technologies to help our PS Series SAN customers leverage the power of 10GbE for high-performance storage consolidation and data protection services.”
Chelsio’s Complete Product Family
Based on its 2nd generation architecture, Chelsio’s product family is very easy to use and fully supports Linux, Solaris and soon the Windows OS. The product line includes:
- T210 10GbE Protocol Engine, a 10Gb Ethernet adapter with full TCP/IP Offload (TOE) and iSCSI acceleration.
- N210 10GbE Server Adapter, a 10Gb Ethernet adapter with turn-key software drivers for all major operating systems is the lowest priced server adapter in the industry for 10Gb Ethernet connectivity.
- T204 4x1GbE Protocol Engine is a four port Gigabit Ethernet adapter with full TOE and iSCSI acceleration, offering the best price/performance solution perfect for IP storage systems.
Chelsio will be exhibiting its entire product family next week at LinuxWorld in Boston, in booth #1607.
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 www.chelsio.com.
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