The CME Tick-To-Trade Solution incorporates the record-breaking LightSpeed
TCP Offload Engine, an ultra-low latency CME MDP3 feed handler with A/B line arbitration, and an order triggering system.
And by integrating the
TCP offload engine, users will be impressed with the performance it can deliver.”
TCP Chimney Offload provides an automated offload of transmission control protocol (TCP) traffic processing via a
TCP offload engine (TOE) that is incorporated in Broadcom's NetXtreme II C-NIC devices.
Another solution to the problem is a
TCP offload engine (ToE), which is a specialized protocol processor on a network interface card that accelerates all TCP operations and offloads them from a host processor.
Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., an established leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet protocol acceleration technology, has announced benchmark results published by The Ohio State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory prove 10GbE with
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) outperforms InfiniBand (IBA), Myrinet and standard 10G NICs without TOE in high-performance computing applications.
For example, T6 adapters are capable of encrypting/decrypting network data at line rate and in an in-line fashion (with or without integrated
TCP Offload Engine), while concurrently doing encryption/decryption of storage data in a co-processor mode, thus enabling concurrent secure communication and secure storage, all for the price and power of a typical NIC.
With the introduction of
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) bus adapters, this concern has been lessened.
An initiator can be an iSCSI driver with a standard network card or a card with a
TCP offload engine (TOE), which reduces CPU utilization.
As shown in Figure 2, Exchange servers connect to the IP SAN using either iSCSI host bus adaptors (HBAs) or an iSCSI driver on top of a
TCP offload engine (TOE) or standard Ethernet network interface card (NIC).
Earls, "
TCP Offload Engines Finally Arrive," Storage Magazine, March 2002.
No discussion on iSCSI performance feels complete without covering
TCP offload engines (TOE cards) and iSCSI host-bus adaptors (HBAs).
TCP Offload Engines (TOEs) and 10-Gigabit Ethernet may help to alleviate some or most of the performance issues in the future, but at additional hardware and/or infrastructure costs.