Third-generation 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Engine for iSCSI, RDMA and TCP/IP Applications
The Terminator 3 ASIC from Chelsio Communications is a scalable, high-performance 10Gb Ethernet unified wire engine, enabling simultaneous support of iSCSI, RDMA and TCP/IP sockets applications. A third-generation design, it builds upon Chelsio's robust and field-proven Terminator 2 engine which has been widely deployed in server, storage and clustering interconnect applications.
Highlights
- High-performance server adapter, TCP/IP offload, iSCSI and RDMA
- Integrated traffic manager, QoS and virtualization capabilities
- Integrated PCI-X 2.0 266MHz and PCI-Express x8 host bus interfaces
- Integrated two 10Gb full-duplex Ethernet and two 100Mb/1Gb Ethernet MACs
- Support for additional external MACs
- Extensive system management interfaces including I²C, SMBus and IPMI
- Line-rate 10Gb full-duplex performance
- Powerful per-connection, per-server, and per-interface configuration and control
- Scalable to one million simultaneous connections
