Chelsio Delivers Software Driver for Mac OS X

Chelsio Communications, Inc. announced the availability of its first software driver for Apple’s Mac OS X operating systems, bringing the high performance of Chelsio’s Unified Wire adapters to the rapidly growing Mac OS X-based enterprise data centers.

The multi-function NIC driver, which supports Mac OS X version 10.5.2 and above, is available from Chelsio and its distributors. Support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) and additional components of the Unified Wire (offloaded iSCSI initiator and iWARP RDMA) will be supported in update releases later this year.

"Chelsio is a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet connectivity and its support for Mac OS X expands the ecosystem of high performance interconnect options for our enterprise data center customers," said Jeanclaude Toma, executive VP at Apace Systems, a leading media workflow and storage system manufacturer. "The Chelsio adapter’s ability to deliver high-bandwidth connectivity across a wide range of network environments will be a great benefit to our Mac OS X customers."

"Our Unified Wire adapters have been proven to be the highest performance interconnects for enterprise data center environments utilizing Mac OS X," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "These all-in-one Ethernet adapters are future proofing Mac OS X environments and enabling low cost fabric convergence."