Solarflare Communications has released a new family of 10GbE controllers, including the new 10GBASE-T LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) product. The new10GBASE-T product family consists of the Solarstorm SFL9022 dual-port LOM, the Solarstorm SFL9021 single-port LOM and the Solarstorm SFC9020 dual-port controller.
Solarflare said that the new products offer enhanced performance, including sub-6 microsecond latency. The 10GbE controller’s low latency also improves response time and application performance in finance, biomedical, seismic imaging, rich media, Web 2.0 and cloud computing applications.
Acording to Solarflare, the SFC9000 family features a fully-virtualised architecture, which supports 10x the number of virtual machines and virtual NICs, and the ability to provision and manage IP flows to ensure optimal application performance and network resource utilisation. The family also includes the fully-integrated 10GBASE-T LOM, which enables backwards compatibility with 1000BASE-T Ethernet and support for installed cabling.
Solarflare claims that the 10GbE controller’s low-latency can improve the performance of applications that use multicast, require high packet throughput, low-latency distribution of data, low-CPU utilisation and increased scalability. These applications include medical imaging and seismic image processing for oil and gas exploration.
The new controller family provides driver support for operating system environments, including Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and SUSE Linux, Solaris, VMware and Citrix XenServer.
Mike Smith, vice president of product marketing at Solarflare, said: “New data centres require technologies that can scale as application workloads increase, while delivering top performance. Our new Solarstorm SFC9000 family does this while using less than half the power, enabling 10G Ethernet to be used in even the most dense server designs.”
