Chelsio Communications Explained

Chelsio Communications
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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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Portfolio . . May 23, 2013 .
  2. Web site: Portfolio Investments . New Enterprise Associates . May 24, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130412043015/http://www.nea.com/Portfolio/CompanyDetail.aspx?id=1290 . April 12, 2013 .
  3. News: Chelsio adds $25M in funding . San Jose Business Journal . January 17, 2005 . May 28, 2013 .
  4. News: LSI Logic invests in 10-Gbit Ethernet card maker Chelsio . EE Times . June 19, 2006 . Loring Wirbel . May 24, 2013 .
  5. News: Chelsio Raises $25 Million in Private Funding . Inside HPC . January 3, 2008 . May 24, 2013 .
  6. News: Chelsio Announces $17M in Private Funding . Inside HPC . November 16, 2009 . May 24, 2013 .
  7. News: New hardware brings 10G LANs closer to reality . . https://archive.today/20130629233003/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/052410gswitches.html . dead . June 29, 2013 . May 24, 2004 . Phil Hochmuth . May 23, 2013 .
  8. News: Foundry, Chelsio strike 10 Gigabit alliance . . November 23, 2004 . Jeff Caruso . May 23, 2013.
  9. News: TCP Offload lifts 10G Ethernet over other technologies . . July 19, 2005 . Jeff Caruso . May 23, 2013.
  10. News: Purdue builds Big Ten's biggest computer, again . News release . July 20, 2009 . . May 23, 2013 .
  11. News: Chelsio imitates LeftHand Networks: Launches new USS enterprise . . August 27, 2009 . Chris Mellor . May 24, 2013.
  12. PCT filed April 11, 2002, published November 2, 2004
  13. News: News release . Chelsio Announces 4th Generation Terminator Chip . May 23, 2013 .
  14. News: News release . Chelsio Announces Terminator 5 ASIC 40 Gigabit Ethernet iWARP RDMA, iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, NIC Engine . January 22, 2013 . May 23, 2013 .
  15. Web site: ColfaxDirect Serves up Chelsio T4 10Gb Ethernet Adapters . Inside HPC . March 15, 2011 . May 23, 2013 .
  16. Web site: Chelsio Unified Storage 10G/1G iSCSI-to-SAS Router . Dell web site . May 24, 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130628235313/http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dfo&sku=a5890728 . June 28, 2013 .
  17. Web site: Quantum and Chelsio: Easy Tape Attach for IP SANs . pdf . September 2, 2011 . May 24, 2013 .
  18. Web site: Open Fabrics Workshop to Focus on HPC, Big Data, and the Cloud . Inside HPC . March 1, 2012 . May 23, 2013 .

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