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