Solidum Systems was a

fabless Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclus ...

semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in

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in 1997. The company developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Some of their devices could be found in systems which supported 10 Gbit/s interfaces. Solidum was acquired in October 2002 by

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. IDT closed the Ottawa offices supporting the product in March 2009. Misha Nossik was also the second chairman of the

Network Processing Forum The Network Processing Forum (NPF) is an industry forum that was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation networking and telecommunications products based on Network processor, network processing technologies. The ...

. The NPF also released the

Look-Aside Interface The Look-Aside Interface is a computer interface that was specified by an interface interoperability agreement produced by the Network Processing Forum. It specifies the method to interface a Network Processing Element (of which an NPU is an examp ...

which is an important specification for Network Search Elements such as Solidum's devices.

Products

Solidum produced a set of

Traffic Classification Traffic classification is an automated process which categorises computer network traffic according to various parameters (for example, based on port number or protocol) into a number of ''traffic classes''. Each resulting traffic class can be tr ...

devices called the PAX.port 1100, PAX.port 1200, and PAX.port 2500 The classifier chips were used in Network Switches and Load Balancers.

External links

Packet Description Language introduced

2001 2nd round financing

2002 NPF names Misha Nossik Chairman
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