Broadcom demonstrated a one Gigabit per second (Gbps) working implementation of its TCP/IP offload engine technology, supporting the Microsoft TCP Chimney architecture. TCP Chimney is a Microsoft technology that allows the operating system to offload the TCP processing of selected network streams from the CPU to the network controller.
TCP processing consumes a significant amount of the host CPU cycles and as network speed rapidly increases, the need to offload this burden from the host CPU becomes more urgent. Offload frees the host CPU for processing of applications, thus improving overall application performance. http://www.broadcom.comhttp://www.microsoft.com
