Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ:SILC) (TASE:SILC) today announced the launch
of a new high-performance PCI Express Server encryption and compression
card family based on the Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx. Silicom’s
product family offers several significant advantages over all competing
solutions:
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High level of performance for both SSL and compression;
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Excellent compatibility with Intel® architecture through the
implementation of Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® architecture
is today’s most widely utilized server architecture);
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Wide selection of cards, resulting in maximized flexibility to
the customer; and
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Great price/performance ratio.
Silicom’s new encryption and compression cards offload encryption and
compression tasks from the server’s CPU, thereby enhancing and
accelerating overall server performance. Server acceleration is a
critically important feature in the era of virtualization, cloud and
SDN, which are creating a continuous need to improve the performance of
servers within the data center while minimizing footprint and power
consumption.
The following PCI Express Adapters based on the Intel Communications
Chipset have now been released:
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PE3iS4CO2: features four Intel® Communications Chipset 8950 PCI
Express x8/G3s
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PE3iSCO2: features the Intel® Communications Chipset 8950 PCI Express
x8/G3
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PE2iSCO2: features the Intel® Communications Chipset 8950 PCI Express
x8/G2
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PE2iSCO1: features the Intel® Communications Chipset 8925 PCI Express
x8/G2
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M1E2iCO2: features the Intel® Communications Chipset 8950 SETAC Module
x8/G2
In addition, Silicom is now developing the following longer-term
solutions also based on the new Intel Communications Chipset:
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FIPS-140-2 level 3-certified card (targeted for government
applications)
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SoNIC System-on-a-NIC: an Intel® architecture-based
system-on-a-PCI-Express-card with accelerator (targeted for
application offload)
“We are excited to launch our new product line based on the Intel®
Communications Chipset. We believe this to be the industry’s most
extensive range of Encryption/Compression-based adapters,” commented
Shaike Orbach, Silicom’s President and CEO. “We have worked closely with
Intel in order to deliver this comprehensive new product family very
quickly. All beta tests confirm that the cards perform at an extremely
high level – even better than the level required by many of our current
customers and by next-generation SDN-based virtualized clouds. With the
expected explosion of Cloud Data Centers utilizing virtualization and
SDN, all of which need offload, we believe our new family of cards is
exactly what the market needs.”
Frank Schapfel, Director of Marketing, Intel Communications and Server
Infrastructure Division, added, “Higher-performance encryption and
compression offloads are two of the significant challenges that
high-performance servers must overcome to achieve target performance
levels, especially in the SDN and Cloud space. Silicom is addressing
this pain point with a comprehensive suite of cards that integrate
encryption and compression functionality. This is an important offering
that we believe will answer the needs of performance-hungry servers in
both the SDN and Cloud markets, as well as in the traditional networking
appliances markets.”
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About Silicom
Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance
networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to
increase data center efficiency, Silicom’s solutions dramatically
improve the throughput and availability of networking appliances and
other server-based systems.
Silicom’s products are used by a large and growing base of OEM
customers, many of whom are market leaders, as performance-boosting
solutions for their offerings in the Application Delivery,
WAN Optimization, Security and other mission-critical segments within
the fast-growing virtualization, cloud computing and big data markets.
Silicom’s product portfolio includes multi-port 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
server adapters, Intelligent Bypass solutions, Encryption accelerators
and a variety of innovative Smart adapters. These products are available
for incorporation directly into our OEM customers' systems, or provided
as part of Silicom’s patented SETAC (Server To Appliance Converter), a
unique approach to the provision of high quality standard platforms with
modular front connectivity.
For more information, please visit: www.silicom.co.il.
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