Chelsio Communications

Chelsio Communications is the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, delivering protocol-offload and acceleration technology to improve application performance and communications bandwidth for high-performance servers and storage systems.

Chelsio's board-level products employ the company's unique ICs that process compute-intensive communications protocols at 10Gbps rates. By offloading the protocol processing from the host CPU to Chelsio’s intelligent hardware adapters, host servers and storage systems that use Chelsio adapters dramatically increase both application performance and communications bandwidth.

Chelsio products accelerate network performance in enterprise data centers, high performance cluster computing (HPCC), enterprise-wide data storage systems, and post-production shops for digital film and video.

Chelsio Communications products

10Gb Ethernet Adapters

Chelsio’s third-generation line of 10Gb Ethernet adapters provide the highest performance available today, setting new benchmarks for Ethernet performance. Chelsio’s unique hardware architecture increases bandwidth, reduces latency, and dramatically lowers host-system CPU utilization.

Listed below are just some of the highlights and special features:

1. Full line rate, full duplex 10Gbps performance
2. The most advanced TCP/IP offload engine in the market
3. The only 10Gb Ethernet adapter available today with iSCSI offload integrated with the on-board TOE for best possible performance
4. Standards-compliant RDMA specifically architectured for low latency cluster computing
5. Available with one or two 10Gb ports with short- or long-reach XFP optics, or CX4 copper network interface

S310E 10GbE Storage Accelerators

Chelsio’s S310E 10GbE Storage Accelerator is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter with PCI Express host bus interface optimized for storage applications. With on-board hardware that offloads TCP/IP, iSCSI, and iWARP RDMA processing from its host system, the S310E frees up host CPU cycles for applications processing.

Following are the key features and benefits of the S310E:

1. TOE, iSCSI, and RDMA with DDP support
2. Complete IP SAN (iSCSI) hardware and software solution
3. Runs existing Fibre Channel applications
4. Robust, high availability feature set
5. ‘Unified Wire’ solution– runs all protocols simultaneously
6. Advanced traffic management support
7. Enables server virtualization