Unified Wire Adapters

The Future of High Speed Interconnect is Here! Chelsio’s Terminator 6 (T6) Unified Wire Adapters


Chelsio is delivering the future of high speed interconnect with its sixth generation technology, the Terminator 6 (T6) Unified Wire Adapters.

T6 adapters are the only single chip, single firmware cards that can fully offload the following over a single Unified Wire.

Ideal for all data, storage and high performance clustering applications, these high performance adapters enable a unified fabric over a single wire by simultaneously running all unmodified IP sockets, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand applications over Ethernet at line rate. Designed for deployment in virtualized datacenters, cloud service installations and high performance computing environments, these adapters bring a new level of performance metrics and functional capabilities to the computer networking industry. In addition, support for integrated TLS/SSL, DTLS, IPsec and SMB 3.X crypto in the T6 adapters enable concurrent secure communication and secure storage, all for the price and power of a typical NIC.

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Chelsio is proud to offer the following line of highest quality products:

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T6225-OCP3

T6225-OCP3

High Performance, Dual Port 1/10/25GbE OCP 3.0 Unified Wire Adapter

Chelsio’s T6225-OCP3 is a dual port 1/10/25Gb Ethernet OCP 3.0 (Open Compute Project) Unified Wire Adapter, with a PCI Express 3.0 x8 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization, security, and other datacenter applications in an Open Compute environment. It also supports TLS/SSL/IPsec/DTLS/SMB3.x Crypto (Encryption/Decryption) functionality in both traditional co-processor and inline modes, delivering line rate performance at low CPU utilization.


Chelsio T6225-OCP3 Product Brief (PDF)


T62100-SO-OCP3

T62100-SO-OCP3

High Performance, Dual Port 40/50/100GbE OCP 3.0 Server Offload Adapter

Chelsio’s T62100-SO-OCP3 is a dual port 40/50/100Gb Ethernet OCP 3.0 (Open Compute Project) Server Offload adapter, with PCI Express 3.0 host bus interface, optimized for cloud computing, storage, HPC, virtualization, security, and other datacenter applications in an Open Compute environment.


Chelsio T62100-SO-OCP3 Product Brief (PDF)


T62100-CR

T62100-CR

Ultra High Performance, Half Size, Dual Port 40/50/100GbE Unified Wire Adapter

Chelsio’s T62100-CR is a dual port 40/50/100Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapter, with a PCI Express 3.0 x16 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter networking applications. It can accommodate more external memory modules and hence specifically enhance the iSCSI performance on the target side. It also supports TLS/SSL/IPsec/DTLS/SMB3.x Crypto (Encryption/Decryption) functionality in both traditional co-processor and inline modes, delivering line rate performance at low CPU utilization.


Chelsio T62100-CR Product Brief (PDF)


T62100-LP-CR

T62100-LP-CR

High Performance, Low Profile, Dual Port 40/50/100GbE Unified Wire Adapter

Chelsio’s T62100-LP-CR is a dual port 40/50/100Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapter, with a PCI Express 3.0 x16 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter networking applications. It also supports TLS/SSL/IPsec/DTLS/SMB3.x Crypto (Encryption/Decryption) functionality in both traditional co-processor and inline modes, delivering line rate performance at low CPU utilization.


Chelsio T62100-LP-CR Product Brief (PDF)


T62100-SO-CR

T62100-SO-CR

High Performance, Low Profile, Dual Port 40/50/100GbE Server Offload Adapter

Chelsio’s T62100-SO-CR is a dual port 40/50/100Gb Ethernet Server Offload Adapter, with a PCI Express 3.0 x16 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter networking applications. It doesn’t have any external memory on adapter and can offload a limited number of TOE, iSCSI and iWARP connections. It also supports TLS/SSL/IPsec/DTLS/SMB3.x Crypto (Encryption/Decryption) functionality in both traditional co-processor and inline modes, delivering line rate performance at low CPU utilization.


Chelsio T62100-LP-CR Product Brief (PDF)


T6225-CR

T6225-CR

High Performance, Low Profile, Dual Port 1/10/25GbE Unified Wire Adapter

Chelsio’s T6225-CR is a dual port 1/10/25Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapter, with a PCI Express 3.0 x8 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter networking applications. It also supports TLS/SSL/IPsec/DTLS/SMB3.x Crypto (Encryption/Decryption) functionality in both traditional co-processor and inline modes, delivering line rate performance at low CPU utilization.


Chelsio T6225-CR Product Brief (PDF)


T6225-SO-CR

T6225-SO-CR

High Performance, Low Profile, Dual Port 1/10/25GbE Server Offload Adapter

Chelsio’s T6225-SO-CR is a dual port 1/10/25Gb Ethernet Server offload Adapter, with a PCI Express 3.0 x8 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter networking applications. It doesn’t have any external memory on adapter and can offload a limited number of TOE, iSCSI and iWARP connections. It also supports TLS/SSL/IPsec/DTLS/SMB3.x Crypto (Encryption/Decryption) functionality in both traditional co-processor and inline modes, delivering line rate performance at low CPU utilization.


Chelsio T6225-SO-CR Product Brief (PDF)


T520-BT

T520-BT

High Performance, Dual Port 10GbE Unified Wire Adapter

Chelsio’s T520-BT is a dual port 10GBase-T 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire adapter with PCI Express 3.0 host bus interface, optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other data center applications.


Chelsio T520-BT Product Brief (PDF)


T540-LP-CR

T540-LP-CR

High Performance, Quad Port 10GbE Unified Wire Adapter

Chelsio’s T540-LP-CR is a quad port low profile, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire adapter with a PCI Express 3.0 host bus interface. The adapter is optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter applications.


Chelsio T520-BT Product Brief (PDF)


Legacy Adapters

T5 and Legacy Adapters

Chelsio’s High Speed Legacy Adapters.