Chelsio Communications, a start-up offering 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards and protocol acceleration technology, is collaborating with Sun Microsystems to develop drivers for the Solaris Operating System for SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-processor based systems. Chelsio is currently shipping the driver for the Solaris OS for its N110 10Gb Ethernet NIC and will have a driver available for its T110 10Gb Ethernet Protocol Engine adapter later this year. http://www.chelsio.com/
- In August, Chelsio Communications, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced a 10 Gbps Ethernet NIC priced at $1,995. The new half-size PCI-X card is a streamlined version of Chelsio’s T110 host bus adapter, which achieves high-performance and low-latency by providing protocol off-load in silicon. Chelsio also leverages a VLIW (very long instruction word) “Terminator” ASIC that can handle more than one million concurrent sessions, enabling the T110 cards to support up to 64,000 simultaneous connections.