Comments on: Start-up lands 10GigE deals with IBM, HP

NetXen, builder of high-speed network processors and network cards, wins two major server accounts.

[Earl Benser]

Good news....

.... except for the projected $600 per network card price. Looks like
I stay at 1000bT for a while.

[soldack]

embedded CPU handles 10GB TCP/IP?

They seem to be using some sort of embedded CPU. Almost every company trying to use an off the shelf embedded CPU for TCP/IP offload has not had enough performance. I wonder if it is a custom ASIC that supports some hardwired bits and some custom firmware? Some of the IB adapters are like this. Anyone know?

[alek_nedic]

go startup!

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[alek_nedic]

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