Communications: 10-Gbit Ethernet Adapters Pack TCP/IP Offload Support

Feb. 16, 2006

Based on a state-machine architecture, the Xframe II 10-Gbit/s Ethernet adapter delivers full line-speed operation over its PCI-X 2.0 host-bus interface. Similarly, the Xframe E card does the same over a PCI Express host interface. Extensive protocol offloads and assists reduce host processor loading and optimize bus utilization. Additionally, the PCI-X card offers a deepsplitbus transaction capability to further improve utilization of the PCI-X bus while achieving half the latency of previous 1-Gbit adapters. The Xframe cards fully comply with the IEEE 802.3ae 10-Gbit standard and use standardized physical-media-dependent modules to ensure interoperability. Both cards support IPv4 and IPv6. Their comprehensive stateless offloads preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations. The cards support up to eight levels of quality of service, allowing traffic to be classified, prioritized, and queued at line rate. Single-unit price for the PCI-X 2.0 card is $3990. Units are immediately available.

Neterion Corp.
www.neterion.com

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Dave Bursky

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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.