Neterion Licenses Alacritech’s Patents

Neterion, Inc.
and
Alacritech, Inc.
announced today that the two companies have entered into
a licensing
agreement. The agreement enables Neterion to incorporate
Alacritech’s
patented Dynamic TCP Offload Technology for Microsoft
Chimney Offload
into Neterion 10 GbE adapters.

"As the leader in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market,
Neterion
continues to seek partnership opportunities with innovative
technology
leaders in the 10 GbE ecosystem such as Alacritech in order
to provide
advanced and complete product solutions to both OEMs and
end users," said
Dave Zabrowski, president & CEO of Neterion. "Adding
TOE capability that
takes advantage of Alacritech’s patents is a natural complement
to our
industry leading stateless hardware acceleration, like Large
Send and
Receive Offloads (LSO/LRO). The primary beneficiaries
of this agreement
are end users who wish to scale the performance of their
servers by
deploying a TOE solution using Neterion’s adapters — the
10 GbE adapter
most broadly deployed by tier-1 server and storage OEMs
for its robustness,
performance and ease-of-use."

TOE provides an offload capability that scales to meet the
ever increasing
application performance demands placed on today’s modern
servers, while
ensuring reduced CPU utilization, without reduction in network
manageability or security.

"This licensing agreement between two market leaders has
the potential to
have a major impact on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet server and
storage
networking markets by further extending the reach of Alacritech’s
Dynamic
TCP Offload technology," said Larry Boucher, president &
CEO of Alacritech.
"Combining Alacritech’s patented Dynamic TCP Offload Technology
in support
of Microsoft’s TCP Chimney Offload with Neterion’s successful
10 Gigabit
technology implementation will certainly expand the market
for 10 GbE by
addressing head on, the end customer’s quest for performance
without
compromise. Customers can have performance while maintaining
a firm handle
on server sprawl," Boucher concluded.

Neterion, Inc.

Alacritech, Inc.