Chelsio Announces Release of Ethernet Adapters
Chelsio Communications announced that is releasing to production 3 new PCI Express 3.0 Ethernet adapters, based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 ASIC and optimized for cloud computing, HPC, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications. The new adapters are high performance drop-in replacements for any FibreChannel or InfiniBand interfaces.
- T522-CR: a dual 1/10Gb port (SFP+) plus dual 1Gb port (RJ-45) low profile Unified Wire adapter that provides 22Gb of full-duplex bandwidth, and allows OEMs the flexibility of fielding products at both 1Gb and 10Gb via the same qualification effort.
- T540-CR: a quad10Gbport (SFP+)Ethernet Unified Wire adapter that provides aggregate 40Gbps full duplex performance for iSCSI, FCoE, TCP/IP, UDP/IP and RDMA applications. This adapter allows line rate 40Gb full-duplex operation over four standard 10GbE switch ports, using generic twin-ax or optical cables.
- T580-CR: a dual40Gb port (QSFP)Ethernet Unified Wire adapter, optimized for iSCSI, TOE, and storage applications. The T580-CR provides maximum full duplex performance for iSCSI, FCoE, TCP/IP, UDP/IP and RDMA users.
Chelsio's high performance storage adapters enable a converged, traffic managed interconnect solution that simultaneously supports a complete suite of networking and storage protocols. The Chelsio adapters are the only ones capable of true 40Gb line rate operation for the iSCSI protocol, while reducing CPU utilization to enable building high performance, yet cost effective storage solutions. In addition, T5 introduces T10-DIX support for iSCSI as well as advanced internal data integrity protection capabilities, making it ideal for mission critical applications.
Chelsio demonstrated the industry's first 40Gb line rate operation of offloaded iSCSI protocol with CRC Digest protection enabled, using a single Chelsio T5-based 40GbE Unified Wire adapter at the Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
