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Also covering GbE NIC/LOM and PCIe Switch Chips for Servers PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2007 Authors: Bob
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The Definitive Report on 10G Ethernet Server Connectivity After covering the emerging 10GbE controller and adapter market for the last several years, the time has come to dedicate an entire report to this important segment. This new report builds on our previous coverage in “A Guide to Gigabit and 10G Ethernet Chips, Third Edition”. With our expanded coverage, we now offer complete chapters on the leading 10GbE NIC and controller vendors. Because OEMs source both board-level and chip-level products, we now include full coverage and comparisons for both 10GbE NICs and 10GbE controller chips. We also cover GbE controller chips designed for server NIC/LOM applications. Finally, we include coverage of PCI Express switch chips that can be used in server fan-out, modular-backplane, and multiport-NIC/HBA designs. With the transition to 10GbE, many new technologies are being added to Ethernet-controller designs. Most of these new features are designed to offload processing from the host CPU and therefore increase throughput or lower CPU utilization. These offloads are divided into three basic categories: stateless offloads that work with traditional operating system stacks; stateful offloads such as TOE that require stack changes; and virtualization offloads for environments such as VMware and Xen. For converged networks, new protocols such as iWARP (RDMA) and iSCSI also come into play. With all of this complexity, no single vendor can satisfy the requirements of all potential customers. We help you sort out which vendors meet your specific needs. We Map Out the Crowded Vendor Landscape “A Guide to 10G Ethernet Adapters and Controller Chips” begins with an extensive overview of this fast-growing market. The report provides tutorials that help you plow through the alphabet soup of acronyms and standards. We explore the market and technology trends for 10GbE server connections, followed by an explanation of the common attributes of these products. Following these introductory chapters, the report delivers a complete chapter on seven major vendors of 10GbE NICs and/or controller chips: Broadcom, Chelsio, Intel, Myricom, NetEffect, Neterion, and NetXen. Each major-vendor chapter includes company background information, full details of announced products, and our conclusions about the vendor and its products. An additional chapter covers vendors that offer only GbE NIC/LOM products as well as new entrants into the server NIC/LOM market: Alacritech, Brocade, Marvell/Sun, Mellanox, Nvidia, QLogic, ServerEngines, Solarflare, Sony, and Tehuti. We then dedicate a chapter to detailed head-to-head comparisons of the many available NIC/LOM products. Because PCI Express is the critical interconnect technology for servers, we include a chapter covering products from IDT, PLX, Pericom, and NextIO. We compare switch chips for fan-out and chips for backplane applications, which are precursors to future MR-IOV designs. The report concludes with our outlook for the server market for Ethernet and the leading vendors. Make Informed Decisions As the leading vendor of technology analysis for networking silicon, The Linley Group has the expertise to deliver a comprehensive look at the range of chips designed for server connectivity. Bob Wheeler and Jag Bolaria use their broad experience in networking silicon to deliver the technical and strategic information you need to make informed business decisions. Whether you are looking for the right Ethernet adapter or controller for your application or seeking to partner with or invest in a chip vendor, this report will cut your research time and save you money. Make the intelligent decision, order “A Guide to 10G Ethernet Adapters and Controller Chips” today. This report is written for:
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