Communications: Ethernet Adapter Delivers 10-Gbit/s Data With iWARP Enhancements

Dec. 8, 2004

The NetEffect NE01 Ethernet channel adapter, which fully implements the iWARP Ethernet standards, can deliver data at up to 10 Gbits/s. Its high throughput permits concurrent access to networking, storage, and clustering connectivity over existing Ethernet infrastructures. Created by the RDMA Consortium and IETF, iWARP is a series of extensions to Ethernet and TCP/IP that virtually eliminates the overhead associated with networking. As a result, the NE01 adapters deliver all of the benefits of operating-system bypass, transport offload, and RDMA, as well as support concurrent iWARP, iSER, iSCSI, and TCP/IP traffic over multiple bidirectional 10-Gbit ports with minimal latency. NE01 adapters will be available in the first quarter of 2005. Prices start at $1195 in single-unit quantities.

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.