Chelsio Communications is a privately held technology company headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California
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Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nort ...
with a design center in
Bangalore, India
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. Early
venture capital
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funding came from
Horizons Ventures
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,
Invesco, Investor Growth Capital, NTT Finance, Vendanta Capital, Abacus Capital Group, Pacesetter Capital Group, and
New Enterprise Associates.
A third round of funding raised $25 million in late 2004.
was added as investor in 2006 in the series D round.
By January 2008, a $25M financing round was announced as series E.
In 2009, an additional $17M was raised from previous investors plus Mobile Internet Capital.
Chelsio sells hardware and software solutions including protocol acceleration technology, Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions.
Chelsio was an early vendor of
10 Gigabit Ethernet
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technology, announcing a product in 2004, an alliance with
Foundry Networks, and measurements in 2005.
Chelsio products were used to build the
Coates supercomputer at
Purdue University
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in 2009.
In August 2009 Chelsio announced the Unified Storage Software product to provide
storage area network and
network-attached storage functions.
The company holds several patents, dating from one for reduced overhead
direct memory access (DMA) initially filed in 2002.
A fourth generation was announced in 2011.
In January 2013 Chelsio announced the Terminator 5
application specific integrated circuit, which brings all of the company's protocol acceleration technology to 40 Gbit/s speeds, with the roadmap to 100 Gbit/s scheduled for 2015.
Its products such as
network interface controller cards are sold by distributors.
The Chelsio Unified Storage Router product is also marketed by
Dell
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Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
,
and was certified to work with
tape drive
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...
s from
Quantum Corporation
Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data lifecycle. Their products are used by enterprises, media and ...
in 2011.
Chelsio is involved with the
OpenFabrics Alliance.
References
External links
* {{Official website , http://www.chelsio.com/
Fabless semiconductor companies
Electronics companies of the United States
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California