Re: Question on TCP hardware up lift

[AndInc@aol.com]

Hi Bill,

There used to be a company called Jato that made a TCP acceleration NIC.  
They had some nice white papers.  Larry Bouchet has a little company called 
Alachritech, they're in a similar business.  Level1 communications, bought by 
Intel, had some nice white papers in this area. Also Xaqti has done some 
development in this area.  They focus on ICs for the IP switching business.

Of course TCP stacks in hardware are nothing new.  They're used in 
practically all the existing high speed (gigabit class) switches.  I've seen 
some nice Verilog implementations targeted at FPGAs.  They newer CAM based 
Altera devices seem (to me) to have the most promise.

I have a small project developing in this area, targeting Gigabit Ethernet 
RAID systems.  Give me a shout if you'd like to chat about ipSCSI 
implementations.

Mike Anderson
VP Engineering
Medea Corp.
818 597 7645