SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Alacritech(R), Inc., the innovator of accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced the general availability of its 1000x1F Single-port Server and Storage Accelerator, the industry's first Integrated Storage Network Interface Card (IS-NIC) for 1000BASE-SX optical Gigabit Ethernet networks.

"Alacritech has found a high demand for optical acceleration solutions among customers that are moving mission-critical data such as video, storage and secure federal files," said Barry Haaser, vice president of marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "This is the first accelerator on the market to offer direct optical connectivity to industry leading iSCSI switch and router solutions, and in independent testing has been verified to offer the same wire-speed performance at minimal CPU utilization as our other Gigabit accelerator products." Alacritech's 1000x1F Single-port Server and Storage Accelerator uses the company's standards-compliant SLIC (session-layer interface card) Technology to offload network processing from software to silicon to achieve outstanding performance in servers, NAS (network-attached storage) and iSCSI (Internet SCSI) storage devices. To resolve full offload-related issues such as low network throughput and limited compatibility and scalability, Alacritech's data-path TCP/IP offload enables data movement to be performed by a custom designed ASIC on the adapter, and TCP/IP connection management and error handling to be handled by the host software. Alacritech Inc.