Chelsio Offers 10GigE NIC Priced at $1,995

Chelsio Communications, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced a 10 Gbps Ethernet NIC priced at $1,995. The new half-size PCI-X card is a streamlined version of Chelsio's T110 host bus adapter, which achieves high-performance and low-latency by providing protocol off-load in silicon. Chelsio also leverages a VLIW (very long instruction word) "Terminator" ASIC that can handle more than one million concurrent sessions, enabling the T110 cards to support up to 64,000 simultaneous connections.



Chelsio said that in comparative performance testing verified by independent testing lab VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge, its N110 and T110 consistently delivered higher throughput (up to 52%) and lower latency (as low as 31%) of comparable adapters from Intel and S2io Inc.



The T110, with TCP and iSCSI offload, serves CPU-intensive applications while the N110 is designed strictly for applications that require raw performance capabilities. Both devices will be showcased this week at the LinuxWorld conference and exposition in San Francisco. http://www.chelsio.com