Solidum Systems Explained

Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. The company developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Some of their devices could be found in systems which supported 10 Gbit/s interfaces.

Solidum was acquired in October 2002 by Integrated Device Technology. IDT closed the Ottawa offices supporting the product in March 2009.^[1]

Misha Nossik was also the second chairman of the Network Processing Forum. The NPF also released the Look-Aside Interface which is an important specification for Network Search Elements such as Solidum's devices.

Products

Solidum produced a set of Traffic Classification devices called the PAX.port 1100,^[2] PAX.port 1200, and PAX.port 2500^[3]

The classifier chips were used in Network Switches^[4] and Load Balancers.

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Notes and References

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Web site: Idti - Nasdaq . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052914/http://ir.idt.com/common/mobile/iphone/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=414757&CompanyID=idti&mobileid= . 2016-03-04 . dead .
Web site: Solidum PAX.port 1200 to Provide Classification for Harbour Networks Edge Switch . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130927033534/http://www.embeddedstar.com/press/content/2002/7/embedded4618.html . 2013-09-27 . dead .