Chelsio Communications is a privately held technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a design center in Bangalore, India. Early venture capital funding came from Horizons Ventures,[1]Invesco, Investor Growth Capital, NTT Finance, Vendanta Capital, Abacus Capital Group, Pacesetter Capital Group, and New Enterprise Associates.[2] A third round of funding raised $25 million in late 2004.[3]LSI Corporation was added as investor in 2006 in the series D round.[4] By January 2008, a $25M financing round was announced as series E.[5] In 2009, an additional $17M was raised from previous investors plus Mobile Internet Capital.[6]
Chelsio sells hardware and software solutions including protocol acceleration technology, Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions. Chelsio was an early vendor of 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology, announcing a product in 2004,[7] an alliance with Foundry Networks,[8] and measurements in 2005.[9] Chelsio products were used to build the Coates supercomputer at Purdue University in 2009.[10] In August 2009 Chelsio announced the Unified Storage Software product to provide storage area network and network-attached storage functions.[11]
The company holds several patents, dating from one for reduced overhead direct memory access (DMA) initially filed in 2002.[12] A fourth generation was announced in 2011.[13] In January 2013 Chelsio announced the Terminator 5 application specific integrated circuit, which brings all of the company's protocol acceleration technology to 40 Gbit/s speeds, with the roadmap to 100 Gbit/s scheduled for 2015.[14] Its products such as network interface controller cards are sold by distributors.[15] The Chelsio Unified Storage Router product is also marketed by Dell,[16] and was certified to work with tape drives from Quantum Corporation in 2011.[17] Chelsio is involved with the OpenFabrics Alliance.[18]
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^"Purdue builds Big Ten's biggest computer, again". News release. Purdue University. July 20, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
^Chris Mellor (August 27, 2009). "Chelsio imitates LeftHand Networks: Launches new USS enterprise". The Register. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
^US patent 6,813,652, Mark Stadler, Asgeir Thor Eiriksson, and Kianoosh Naghshineh, "Reduced-overhead DMA" PCT filed April 11, 2002, published November 2, 2004
^"Chelsio Announces Terminator 5 ASIC 40 Gigabit Ethernet iWARP RDMA, iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, NIC Engine". News release. January 22, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
^"ColfaxDirect Serves up Chelsio T4 10Gb Ethernet Adapters". Inside HPC. March 15, 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
^"Chelsio Unified Storage 10G/1G iSCSI-to-SAS Router". Dell web site. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
^"Quantum and Chelsio: Easy Tape Attach for IP SANs" (pdf). September 2, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
^"Open Fabrics Workshop to Focus on HPC, Big Data, and the Cloud". Inside HPC. March 1, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
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chelsio, communications, privately, held, technology, company, headquartered, sunnyvale, california, with, design, center, bangalore, india, early, venture, capital, funding, came, from, horizons, ventures, invesco, investor, growth, capital, finance, vendanta. Chelsio Communications is a privately held technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale California with a design center in Bangalore India Early venture capital funding came from Horizons Ventures 1 Invesco Investor Growth Capital NTT Finance Vendanta Capital Abacus Capital Group Pacesetter Capital Group and New Enterprise Associates 2 A third round of funding raised 25 million in late 2004 3 LSI Corporation was added as investor in 2006 in the series D round 4 By January 2008 a 25M financing round was announced as series E 5 In 2009 an additional 17M was raised from previous investors plus Mobile Internet Capital 6 Chelsio CommunicationsTypePrivately held companyIndustrySemiconductorsElectronicsCommunicationsFounded2000 23 years ago 2000 Sunnyvale CaliforniaHeadquartersSunnyvale California U S Number of employees175Websitewww wbr chelsio wbr comChelsio sells hardware and software solutions including protocol acceleration technology Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards unified storage software high performance storage gateways unified management software bypass cards and other solutions Chelsio was an early vendor of 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology announcing a product in 2004 7 an alliance with Foundry Networks 8 and measurements in 2005 9 Chelsio products were used to build the Coates supercomputer at Purdue University in 2009 10 In August 2009 Chelsio announced the Unified Storage Software product to provide storage area network and network attached storage functions 11 The company holds several patents dating from one for reduced overhead direct memory access DMA initially filed in 2002 12 A fourth generation was announced in 2011 13 In January 2013 Chelsio announced the Terminator 5 application specific integrated circuit which brings all of the company s protocol acceleration technology to 40 Gbit s speeds with the roadmap to 100 Gbit s scheduled for 2015 14 Its products such as network interface controller cards are sold by distributors 15 The Chelsio Unified Storage Router product is also marketed by Dell 16 and was certified to work with tape drives from Quantum Corporation in 2011 17 Chelsio is involved with the OpenFabrics Alliance 18 References edit Portfolio Horizons Ventures Retrieved May 23 2013 Portfolio Investments New Enterprise Associates Archived from the original on April 12 2013 Retrieved May 24 2013 Chelsio adds 25M in funding San Jose Business Journal January 17 2005 Retrieved May 28 2013 Loring Wirbel June 19 2006 LSI Logic invests in 10 Gbit Ethernet card maker Chelsio EE Times Retrieved May 24 2013 Chelsio Raises 25 Million in Private Funding Inside HPC January 3 2008 Retrieved May 24 2013 Chelsio Announces 17M in Private Funding Inside HPC November 16 2009 Retrieved May 24 2013 Phil Hochmuth May 24 2004 New hardware brings 10G LANs closer to reality Network World Archived from the original on June 29 2013 Retrieved May 23 2013 Jeff Caruso November 23 2004 Foundry Chelsio strike 10 Gigabit alliance Network World Retrieved May 23 2013 Jeff Caruso July 19 2005 TCP Offload lifts 10G Ethernet over other technologies Network World Retrieved May 23 2013 Purdue builds Big Ten s biggest computer again News release Purdue University July 20 2009 Retrieved May 23 2013 Chris Mellor August 27 2009 Chelsio imitates LeftHand Networks Launches new USS enterprise The Register Retrieved May 24 2013 US patent 6 813 652 Mark Stadler Asgeir Thor Eiriksson and Kianoosh Naghshineh Reduced overhead DMA PCT filed April 11 2002 published November 2 2004 Chelsio Announces 4th Generation Terminator Chip News release Retrieved May 23 2013 Chelsio Announces Terminator 5 ASIC 40 Gigabit Ethernet iWARP RDMA iSCSI TOE FCoE NIC Engine News release January 22 2013 Retrieved May 23 2013 ColfaxDirect Serves up Chelsio T4 10Gb Ethernet Adapters Inside HPC March 15 2011 Retrieved May 23 2013 Chelsio Unified Storage 10G 1G iSCSI to SAS Router Dell web site Archived from the original on June 28 2013 Retrieved May 24 2013 Quantum and Chelsio Easy Tape Attach for IP SANs pdf September 2 2011 Retrieved May 24 2013 Open Fabrics Workshop to Focus on HPC Big Data and the Cloud Inside HPC March 1 2012 Retrieved May 23 2013 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chelsio Communications amp oldid 1062854013, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
