Atto Introduces FastFrame 10GbE NIC Card

ATTO Technology, Inc. announced its latest offering in its family of high-performance products, the FastFrame 10Gb/s Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC).

Combining Ethernet technology and ATTO’s 23-year expertise in high-bandwidth data transfer, the FastFrame NIC is the only card of its kind on the market offered in Quad, Dual and Single port options for PCIe 2.0 data interconnects.

Growth in bandwidth intensive data I/O environments, including Internet Protocol (IP) traffic, voice over IP (VOIP), Video on demand (VOD), High Performance Computing (HPC) clustering, combined with the available processing power in multi-core processor servers is driving users to adopt 10Gb Ethernet solutions. ATTO’s 10Gb Ethernet NICs meet the growing demands of traditional host-to-host networking, and also expand the possibilities to Ethernet based storage by supporting Data Center Bridging.  

ATTO’s FastFrame NICs, based on Intel chip technology, offers network connectivity for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems, making them the most versatile 10Gb/s Ethernet cards available for high-bandwidth I/O connectivity found in markets such as media and entertainment, education and government. In addition, they provide low power consumption, up to 30 percent lower than similar products.

"With a wide variety of high-bandwidth connectivity products and a majority share in the media and entertainment markets, ATTO FastFrame 10Gb Network Interface Cards are a natural extension of ATTO’s product portfolio," said Timothy J. Klein, president and CEO for ATTO Technology, Inc. "ATTO’s FastFrame extends the benefits of 10Gb/s network connectivity to Mac OS® X in rich-content environments in M&E markets while also providing  support for Windows and Linux servers when used in datacenter applications."

FastFrame 10Gb/s NICs will be available for shipment in late April 2011 and was be on display in ATTO’s booth at SNW 2011 at Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley/Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California April 4 through April 7. They will also be demonstrated at NAB 2011 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada April 11 through April 14. For more