Accelerated Data Delivery for Windows-Based Servers
The Alacritech Accelerator is a TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) Network Interface Card (TNIC). TNICs from Alacritech accelerate data delivery to enable the fastest, most efficient Windows-based servers today.
TNICs from Alacritech offload and process all TCP-based traffic including E-mail, web, file serving, file transfer, backup, and iSCSI storage. By offloading all network protocol processing, Windows-based networked applications run significantly faster and more efficiently.
Integrating an Alacritech Accelerator into a Windows-based server provides transparent acceleration for all networked applications. File servers equipped with TNICs from Alacritech frequently exceed the performance of NIC-based systems with double the number of processors.
SLIC Technology® - Architecture for Accelerated Network Systems
Alacritech Accelerators are based on the company’s patented, standards-compliant SLIC Technology. SLIC Technology is a Data Path Offload (DPO) architecture that efficiently offloads and accelerates network protocol processing to the company’s programmable Internet Protocol Processor (IPP) ASIC on the adapter.
The Alacritech STA2000 IPP is the first wire-speed, multi-port gigabit Ethernet, hardware-based TCP offload engine. SLIC Technology frees systems to focus on application processing by eliminating network processing bottlenecks including memory traffic, CPU interrupts and PCI traffic.
Products based on SLIC Technology are deployed in tens of thousands of systems worldwide including NAS appliances, video/imaging clients and media servers, and enterprise class servers.
TOEs Cost-Effectively Maximize System Performance & Availability
Alacritech Accelerators extend the scalability of Windows-based servers with support for industry standard Ethernet failover and link aggregation. Link aggregation enables multiple ports on one or more accelerators to be connected to maximize server availability and increase network bandwidth. By enabling network managers to consolidate servers, Alacritech TNICs represent the most cost-effective server upgrade for reducing total cost of ownership available today.
TNICs vs. iSCSI HBAs
TNICs from Alacritech are the only product offering:
- accelerated data delivery with TOE
- increased network performance for all applications, not just iSCSI
- industry standard Ethernet link aggregation and failover
- optimized, wire-speed support of Microsoft’s iSCSI Software Initiator
iSCSI HBAs are single-function cards that:
- can only deliver iSCSI traffic via reduced-functionality iSCSI TOE
- reject all other TCP-based traffic such as email, web, file serving, and file transfer
- lack support for industry-standard Ethernet link aggregation and failover
- fail to support all Microsoft WHQL qualified iSCSI targets
Alacritech Product List:
SEN2100 | SEN2000 | SEN1800 | SEN1500 | SES2100 | SES2000 | SES1800
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