SMC's New 10G Network Adapters To Accelerate 10G Adoption

Irvine, CA - SMC Networks recently announced the launch of a new line of 10G network adapters — including fiber and copper adapters for 10G connections to servers — that stress performance, thermal management, and affordability. The industry's first standards-compliant 10GBASE-T server adapter: the SMC10GPCIe-10BT, is available beginning this week. Also available is a 10Gigabit optical server adapter: the SMC10GPCIe-XFP.

In addition to including the industry's first standards-compliant 10GBASE-T server adapter, several key architectural features included the members of SMC's new family of 10G Ethernet Adapters separate them from the rest of the pack: cut-through architecture for the lowest latency Ethernet solution on the market; virtualization of the host interface; and VNIC, for the cleanest, most efficient acceleration of I/O in virtualized operating system deployments. All of the new adapters run on a high speed PCI-Express x8 Host Bus and, in line with SMC's commitment to flexibility, all of the new SMC Networks 10G adapters are half-height, with brackets for half- or full-height installation.

"Price has been a barrier to widespread 10-gigabit Ethernet adoption," said SMC Network's Director of Product Marketing, Iain Kenney. "SMC's new 10G network adapters are designed around the concept of stateless offload, or leveraging the host CPU more efficiently to get the job done, which allows for a more attractive price/performance ratio."

SMC's 10G Ethernet Adapters for each high-bandwidth application market segment: Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Servers, Storage Area Network (SAN) Arrays, High Performance Cluster Computers, Blade Servers, Video Servers, Application Servers and Web Accelerators began shipping November 19, 2007.

SOURCE: SMC Networks