Chelsio Communications, a start-up offering 10-Gigabit Ethernet server adapters and protocol acceleration technology, announced the appointments of John Brennan, former Sun Microsystems engineering vice president, and Eric Taborek, former sales and marketing executive with Intel Corporation, to senior staff positions at the company, both reporting to Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO.
Brennan comes to Chelsio from Sun Microsystems, where he was vice president of hardware engineering for Sun’s midrange and high-end servers. He will oversee the hardware and software engineering teams at Chelsio.
Taborek joins Chelsio from Intel, where he most recently managed Intel’s worldwide relationships with key industry partners, including Cisco Systems. Taborek joined Intel following its acquisition of VxTel, where he was vice president of sales and marketing. 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.