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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NAPATECH AND XILINX ANNOUNCE WORLD'S FIRST 10
Gbps
PROGRAMMABLE ETHERNET ADAPTER
SAN JOSE, Calif., and COPENHAGEN, Denmark - December 10, 2003 -
Napatech and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the
immediate availability of the industry's first 10 Gbps Programmable
Ethernet Adapter. The 10 Gigabit NT10F Programmable Ethernet
Adapter is the most powerful and advanced Network Interface Card
available on the market today, allowing Ethernet connectivity at 10
Gbps. The adapter supports custom solutions through Xilinx®
Virtex-II Pro™ FPGAs and onboard processors.
Custom features like packet tracing, packet filtering, data
compression, protocol offload (TOE) and encryption / decryption
algorithms can be added to the adapter hardware and processed at 10
Gbps line speeds. The NT10F Ethernet Adapter, with industry
standard PCI/PCI-X interface, delivers the highest available
throughput from its 10G optical interface.
"Napatech's solution is an important validation and demonstration
of the packet processing power of our Virtex-II Pro FPGAs," said
Robert Bielby, senior director of Strategic Solutions Marketing at
Xilinx. "The NT10F is a very powerful platform for developing 10G
Ethernet acceleration solutions like data compression,
encryption/decryption and protocol offload."
"With the NT10F our customers will be able to create custom packet
and data processing solutions running at 10G speeds," said Thomas
Jorgensen, vice president of Sales at Napatech. "Our NT10F has
created a high level of customer interest and we already have the
first customer sales. The Virtex II PRO FPGA allows our customers
to continuously add features and updates to their solutions in the
field."
Pricing and Availability
The NT10F 10 Gbps Ethernet Server Adapter is immediately available
through Napatech and priced at U.S. $10,000. The NT10F is also
available as part of the NTOEM - OEM Development Kit. This kit
contains 2xNT10F NIC's, debug add-on boards, software tools,
utilities, drivers, custom application examples, application notes
and two days training. Price for the OEM Kit is $40,000. Napatech
products are available for OEM sales only.
About Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs
The Xilinx Virtex-II Pro family is the world's first and only FPGA
to offer integrated PowerPC embedded technology and 3.125 Gbps
serial transceivers. Virtex-II Pro devices include these multiple
PowerPC CPUs and multi-gigabit serial transceivers at no additional
charge, providing unequaled capability and value for today's system
design requirements.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
About Napatech
Founded by Jens Christophersen and Thomas Jorgensen in 2003,
Napatech Aps is focused on programmable Ethernet adapters. The core
idea is FPGA based Ethernet NICs. Napatech expects to see a huge
growth in the demand for Intelligent and Programmable adapters as
the need for Ethernet speeds increases. The current PC architecture
limits the amount of bandwidth that can be handled by the PCI bus
and CPU/memory. Napatech's vision is that many CPU and memory
intensive operations can successfully be offloaded to the Adapter
Hardware. Napatech is headquartered just outside Copenhagen,
Denmark. For more information, visit www.napatech.com
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