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Published Date: Oct. 20, 2000
Company Name: Fast-Chip, Incorporated
Address: 950 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
USA
Main Telephone
Number: 408/523-8050
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.fast-chip.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Gregg Cook
Chief Financial
Officer: Bill Naiditch
Investor Relations
Contact: Craig Chidlow
Business number: 408/523-8060
E-mail address: craig_chidlow@fast-chip.com
Public Relations
Contact: Mary Jo Faulkner
Business number: 408/523-8058
E-mail address: maryjo_faulkner@fast-chip.com
Industry: Semiconductor
Company description: Fast-Chip, Inc. is a venture capital backed Internet infrastructure semiconductor company founded in August, 1998 that designs, markets and sells network coprocessor coprocessor Additional processor used in some personal computers to perform specialized tasks such as extensive arithmetic calculations or processing of graphical displays. solutions for next generation intelligent networking equipment products. Fast-Chip's first product, named the PolicyEdge, targets up to OC-192 data rates. Our products can be used to create a wide range of extremely intelligent networking products used at the edges of the network including bandwidth managers Software that can prioritize communications by allowing high-priority traffic to use more available bandwidth in the network than lower-priority data. For example, real time video can be given more bandwidth than file transfers. , fast-firewalls, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. (virtual private network) devices, access service aggregation devices, core switch routers See layer 3 switch. , access routers See edge router and remote access router. , and devices used for load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and switching at the front-end of server farms used for website hosting. |
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