Alacritech Joins 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance; Alacritech's SLIC Technology Key to Delivering 10 Gigabit Ethernet Performance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 Alacritech, Inc. today announced its membership in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. Alliance (10GEA GEA - Graph Extended ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL 60 for graph manipulation, on UNIVAC 1108. "A Language for Treating Graphs", S. Crespi-Reghizzi et al, CACM 13(5) (May 1970). ) to promote 10 Gigabit Ethernet for local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ), metropolitan area network (MAN), and wide area network (WAN) markets and support the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.3 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards process. "Alacritech's SLIC SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC Scottish Library and Information Council SLIC System Licensed Internal Code SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card SLIC Session Layer Interface Card (Alacritech, Inc. (TM) (Session-Layer Interface Card) Technology was designed with scalability to gigabit and beyond. Systems using early Gigabit Ethernet adapters have struggled to take advantage of the bandwidth of today's networks -- something that will be more pronounced as 10 Gigabit Ethernet becomes available," said Barry Haaser, vice president marketing for Alacritech, Inc. "Alacritech's SLIC Technology will offload TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. processing from network endpoints, allowing these systems to drive many gigabits per second of information at vastly greater efficiency levels over yesterday's network interface architecture. As a member of the Alliance, Alacritech will help shape the 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard with our LAN expertise and continue to deliver leading server networking solutions," continued Haaser. High-Performance Network Adapters With a key goal of the IEEE 802.3ae Task Force being to preserve the Ethernet frame format, including 1500 byte maximum frame size, different approaches are required to minimize the impact of higher-speed networks on network endpoints. To fill a 10 Gigabit Ethernet link, a server must be able to process ten times the number of packets and interrupts as Gigabit Ethernet. Alacritech's SLIC Technology is key to delivering 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance out of systems by reducing network overhead by several orders of magnitude through Alacritech's innovative TCP offload techniques. As systems and servers are tapped with increasing amounts of Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. , systems are being forced to process data faster and more efficiently. Network adapters based on Alacritech's SLIC Technology can deliver outstanding performance for Internet and business applications by offloading TCP protocol See TCP. processing from the host to reduce CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization, boost data throughput and decrease network latency. About Alacritech, Inc. With the leadership of industry experts, including founder Larry Boucher (inventor of the SCSI interface), Alacritech, Inc. is leading the way to the next generation of network connectivity. With a company name meaning a readiness or promptness to act or serve, Alacritech develops and manufactures a new class of network processor that dramatically boosts the performance of the Internet, corporate networks, and network-based applications. The company's session layer interface card (SLIC) architecture is the first scalable and fully compatible technology to offload protocol processing from the host CPU. Located at San Jose, Alacritech is privately funded. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.alacritech.com. About the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance was organized to facilitate and accelerate the introduction of 10 Gigabit Ethernet into the networking market. It was founded by networking industry leaders: 3Com, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Intel, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, and World Wide Packets. Additionally, the Alliance will support the activities of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet committee, foster the development of the 802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet) standard, and promote interoperability among 10 Gigabit Ethernet products. For more information, visit their Web site at www.10gea.org. Note to Editors: Alacritech, the Alacritech logo, SLIC Technology, and the SLIC Technology logo are trademarks of Alacritech, Inc. in the United States and Europe. Other marks belong to their respective owners. |
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