Alacritech, Inc.
1995 North First Street Suite 200 San Jose CA 95112 Phone 408.287.9997 Fax 408.287.6142 www.alacritech.com
Product Highlights
• 10Gb Ethernet Scalable Network Accelerator
• Full Microsoft TCP Chimney support
• Accelerates all TCP-based traffic:
- File Serving
- iSCSI SAN
- Backup
- Database
- Decision Support Systems
• Failover between cards for network
protection and redundancy
Alacritech 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Scalable Network Accelerator
™
The continued growth of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data center and the
increased bandwidth and performance demanded by today’s applications
requires a network adapter that not only provides line rate performance,
but also improves CPU efficiency and reduces application latency.
The 10GbE Scalable Network Accelerator (SNA) provides Dynamic TCP Offload for
improved CPU efficiency and application performance under Microsoft Windows®.
In addition, they provide 10GbE connectivity for other operating systems.
Alacritech’s 10GbE SNA is compatible with all networking and iSCSI storage
applications. Installation and configuration is as easy as a standard network
interface card while performance optimization can be completed in minutes
without having to make numerous adjustments to the system or the application.
Dynamic TCP Offload For Windows
The 10GbE Scalable Network Accelerator, Alacritech’s fifth-generation SNA, leverages
Alacritech’s ten years of expertise in TCP offload. Alacritech’s custom processor is
completely deterministic, providing the most efficient transfer of TCP/IP data for all file
and block sizes at the highest frame rates without introducing unwanted latency.
It uses less power and generates less heat than a general purpose processor, such as
those found in many “Full TCP Offload” implementations. The thin driver design allows
the 10GbE SNA to perform the tasks that others leave to the driver and the host CPU.
The 10GbE SNA is fully compatible with Microsoft TCP Chimney, first introduced with the
Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003.
Accelerator Benefits
• Reduces total cost of ownership
- Saves space and power
- Cuts server operating and licensing costs
- Extends life of server
• Improves server efficiency
- Reduces CPU utilization
- Increases throughput
- Adds more clients
- Decreases client response times
- Improves application performance
• Installs and configures quickly and easily
• Achieves full wire speed, full duplex 10Gbps
• Supports MPIO for high availability
Platforms
• Windows® XP Professional x64
• Windows Vista®
• Windows Server® 2003 & 2008
- Including Server Core 2008
- Hyper-V Compatible
• Linux*
• OpenSolaris*: x86 & SPARC
Mac OS X*
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* Available in 2009
10 Gigabit Ethernet Scalable Network Accelerator Datasheet
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