Chelsio announced Terminator 5 ASIC

 

Spotlight on 40Gb Ethernet with Terminator 5

Chelsio Announced the Terminator 5 ASIC, a highly integrated, hyper-virtualized 10/40GbE controller built around a programmable protocol-processing engine, with full offload of a complete Unified Wire solution.

Key features of T5

·         Ultra low latency and high IOPs

·         Two 40Gb ports

·         Four 10Gb/1Gb ports

·         PCIe Gen3

·         Concurrent offload of iSCSI, TCP/IP and UDP/IP, FCoE, iWARP RDMA, NAT, vSwitch, Traffic Management and PTP applications

·         Added support for PTP, iWARP 2.0, T10 DIX, NAT

·         Same software on Linux, Windows and FBSD as current T4 ASIC

The Terminator 5 ASIC Architecture White Paper