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Chelsio Communications Inc announced the highest performance 10Gb Server Adapter card available on the market, at a price point less than $2,000 each, further driving the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet in networking and storage applications. The N110 is a half-size PCI-X interface card, a streamlined version of Chelsio's highly successful T110 host bus adapter. The T110 is still the only 10Gb Ethernet adapter with protocol off-load in silicon, significantly raising the throughput and latency performance bar for the 10Gb Ethernet adapter industry. With a price of just $1,995 (in quantities of 10), the N110 is the lowest-priced and highest-performing 10Gb Ethernet Server Adapter on the market. In comparative performance testing verified by independent testing lab VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge, Chelsio's N110 and T110 adapters consistently delivered better throughput (up to 128 percent higher) and lower latency (up to 71 percent faster) than the comparable adapters from Intel Corp and S2io Inc. VeriTest certified that the testing was performed in a fair and consistent manner, and validated the conclusion that Chelsio's T110 and N110 have the best performance of the 10Gb Ethernet adapters benchmarked. The full report is available upon request from Chelsio. With the introduction of the N110, Chelsio is now offering a family of products targeted at different market requirements. The T110, with TCP and iSCSI offload, serves CPU-intensive applications while the N110 is designed for applications that require raw network performance capabilities. Both devices will be showcased at the LinuxWorld conference and exposition in San Francisco. "Today we are starting to see a transition by high performance computing environments to accelerate adoption of this next generation technology," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, founder and CEO of Chelsio Communications. "Our customers understand the benefits 10Gb Ethernet brings to performance in data centers and across the computing Grid, and we will continue to drive the price and performance capabilities of 10Gb Ethernet adapter technology." Chelsio achieves the high bandwidth and low latency performance on its cards due to the underlying Terminator VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, which delivers numerous advantages over RISC-based multiprocessor system-on-a-chip implementations. The Terminator ASIC can handle more than one million concurrent sessions, and in the T110 card configuration supports up to 64,000 simultaneous connections.