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| Ciprico selects chelsio's 10G Ethernet Chelsio Communications, Inc., the established leader in 10-Gigabit and multi-port Gigabit Ethernet adapters with protocol acceleration technology, today announced that Ciprico Inc., a leading storage solutions provider for the content creation, broadcast and delivery markets, has selected Chelsio's 10Gb Ethernet protocol acceleration technology for its recently announced DiMeda 10G NAS system. The DiMeda 10G NAS allows multiple creative users to share and view both uncompressed Standard Definition and compressed High Definition video content over 10Gb Ethernet networks. "Chelsio's T210 10Gb Ethernet TCP Offload Engine has been proven to have the highest throughput and lowest latency technology in the industry, and digital media applications are clearly turning towards 10Gb Ethernet infrastructure for higher performance, " said Mike Ascher, vice president of engineering at Ciprico. "By switching to Chelsio's unique TCP offload architecture, DiMeda products have seen a 30% performance improvement over previously tested 10GbE NICs." The DiMeda 10G supports DV, SD and lower resolution HD non-linear video applications, global command and control applications and many other high performance computing applications. The system is platform and application agnostic, supporting Windows, UNIX and Mac via CIFS/SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP and HTTP protocols. "Ciprico clearly recognizes the opportunity for 10Gb Ethernet within the video storage market, and has delivered the world's first 10Gb Ethernet NAS for high-definition content creation and broadcast applications, " said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "The Chelsio TOE architecture is uniquely capable of delivering the 10Gb Ethernet performance rates required for this high throughput application space." With the addition of Ciprico to its customer base, more than 100 customers in 20 countries are using Chelsio products in a multitude of applications including digital media storage, video editing and post-production, high-performance cluster computing, server networking, network monitoring, and storage networking. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |