NetEffect Demonstrates Industry's First Low-Latency iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapter at Interop; Joins Fulcrum Microsystems in Display of 10Gb Ethernet Interoperability and Datacenter Suitability.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- NetEffect, the leader in next generation Ethernet connectivity solutions, today announced it is demonstrating its 10Gb iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapter (ECA ECA See: Export Credit Agency ) in the Fulcrum fulcrum: see lever. Microsystems booth (# 126) at Interop, Las Vegas, May 2-4. The demonstration showcases the high throughput and low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as of NetEffect's NE010 iWARP ECA, as well as interoperability with Fulcrum's low-latency FocalPoint 10Gb Ethernet switch A device that connects clients and servers to each other in an Ethernet network. See switched Ethernet. chip family. NetEffect has developed the industry's highest performing Ethernet channel adapter and is the only company delivering adapters that fully implement the iWARP Ethernet standard, allowing data center managers to realize more than 10Gbps throughput using existing Ethernet hardware and software, while radically improving processor utilization for applications that use networking. Created by the RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) A communications protocol that provides transmission of data from the memory of one computer to the memory of another without involving the CPU. InfiniBand, Virtual Interface (VI) and RDMA Over IP are all forms of RDMA. Consortium and IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force , iWARP is a series of extensions to Ethernet that virtually eliminate the 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. bottlenecks and overhead associated with networking when all features are implemented. Since iWARP Ethernet is completely compatible with today's existing Ethernet infrastructures, the resulting performance improvements and overhead reductions come without the cost premiums demanded by proprietary and lower volume technologies. "The demand for a low-latency Ethernet data center interconnect fabric is escalating as enterprises begin to unify their data, storage, and clustering networks," said Bob Nunn, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Fulcrum Microsystems. "Providing the full benefits of Ethernet at competitive latency levels requires an end-to-end approach and we're glad to be working with NetEffect to demonstrate that at Interop." "We appreciate Fulcrum Microsystems asking us to participate in their exhibit at this year's Interop," said Rick Maule, CEO of NetEffect. "A low-latency Ethernet datacenter solution provides higher throughput and lower server overhead to solve real problems today, yet using a networking fabric already understood and deployed by every IT manager in the world - saving costs immediately and throughout the lifetime of use. Since we are both Ethernet, we are completely and incrementally compatible with any data center's existing infrastructure - something that cannot be offered by any other technology. Fulcrum Microsystems and NetEffect are cooperatively enabling Ethernet to be the only fabric needed for high-performance networking, storage and clustering applications." NetEffect is currently providing its 10Gb iWARP ECAs for testing with selected customers. About Fulcrum Microsystems Founded in 2000, Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. focused on developing interconnect switch chips for next-generation board and system designs. The company's devices change the paradigm for interconnect, offering low latency, fine-grained flow control, and high throughput which combine to simplify board design and to build in more flexibility and higher performance. More information can be found at www.fulcrummicro.com. About NetEffect NetEffect is a privately held network connectivity solutions company providing next generation, multi-gigabit Ethernet products. These products fully implement iWARP standards, the new series of Ethernet extensions. iWARP enables Ethernet scalability to deliver high throughput for networking, fast access for storage, and low latency for clustering. NetEffect solutions can concurrently support legacy Ethernet infrastructures and the new generation of storage and clustering applications, at 10Gbps speeds. Visit www.neteffect.com for more information. |
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