Chelsio Communications

{{Short description|American technology company}}

{{Infobox company

|name= Chelsio Communications

|logo= Chelsio Communications Logo

|type= Privately held company

|location= Sunnyvale, California, U.S.

|industry= Semiconductors
Electronics
Communications

|foundation = {{start date and age|2000}}
Sunnyvale, California

|num_employees= 175

|homepage= {{url|http://www.chelsio.com/}}

}}

Chelsio Communications is a privately held technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a design center in Bangalore, India. Early venture capital funding came from Horizons Ventures,{{cite web |url=http://www.horizonvc.com/portfolio.html |title=Portfolio |publisher= Horizons Ventures |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }} Invesco, Investor Growth Capital, NTT Finance, Vendanta Capital, Abacus Capital Group, Pacesetter Capital Group, and New Enterprise Associates.{{cite web |url=http://www.nea.com/Portfolio/CompanyDetail.aspx?id=1290 |title=Portfolio Investments |publisher=New Enterprise Associates |accessdate=May 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412043015/http://www.nea.com/Portfolio/CompanyDetail.aspx?id=1290 |archivedate=April 12, 2013 }}

A third round of funding raised $25 million in late 2004.{{Cite news |title= Chelsio adds $25M in funding |work= San Jose Business Journal |date= January 17, 2005 |url= http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/01/17/daily16.html |accessdate= May 28, 2013 }}

LSI Corporation was added as investor in 2006 in the series D round.{{Cite news |title= LSI Logic invests in 10-Gbit Ethernet card maker Chelsio |work=EE Times |url= http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4061663/LSI-Logic-invests-in-10-Gbit-Ethernet-card-maker-Chelsio/ |date= June 19, 2006 |author= Loring Wirbel |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}

By January 2008, a $25M financing round was announced as series E.{{Cite news |title= Chelsio Raises $25 Million in Private Funding |work=Inside HPC |url= http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/03/chelsio-raises-25-million-in-private-funding/ |date= January 3, 2008 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}

In 2009, an additional $17M was raised from previous investors plus Mobile Internet Capital.{{Cite news |title= Chelsio Announces $17M in Private Funding |work=Inside HPC |url= http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/16/chelsio-announces-17m-in-private-funding/ |date= November 16, 2009 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}

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 technology, announcing a product in 2004,{{Cite news |title= New hardware brings 10G LANs closer to reality |work= Network World |url= http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/052410gswitches.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130629233003/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/052410gswitches.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= June 29, 2013 |date= May 24, 2004 |author= Phil Hochmuth |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }} an alliance with Foundry Networks,{{Cite news |title= Foundry, Chelsio strike 10 Gigabit alliance |work= Network World |url= http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2004/1122lan1.html |date= November 23, 2004 |author= Jeff Caruso |accessdate= May 23, 2013}} and measurements in 2005.{{Cite news |title= TCP Offload lifts 10G Ethernet over other technologies |work= Network World |url= http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2005/0718lan1.html |date= July 19, 2005 |author= Jeff Caruso |accessdate= May 23, 2013}}

Chelsio products were used to build the Coates supercomputer at Purdue University in 2009.{{Cite news |title= Purdue builds Big Ten's biggest computer, again |work= News release |date= July 20, 2009 |publisher= Purdue University |url= http://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2009b/090720McCartneyCoates.html |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }}

In August 2009 Chelsio announced the Unified Storage Software product to provide storage area network and network-attached storage functions.{{Cite news |title= Chelsio imitates LeftHand Networks: Launches new USS enterprise |work= The Register |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/chelsio_lhn_copy/ |date= August 27, 2009 |author= Chris Mellor |accessdate= May 24, 2013}}

The company holds several patents, dating from one for reduced overhead direct memory access (DMA) initially filed in 2002.{{US patent reference

|6813652 |inventor= Mark Stadler, Asgeir Thor Eiriksson, and Kianoosh Naghshineh |title= Reduced-overhead DMA }} PCT filed April 11, 2002, published November 2, 2004

A fourth generation was announced in 2011.{{Cite news |work= News release |title= Chelsio Announces 4th Generation Terminator Chip |url= http://www.chelsio.com/chelsio-announcesnbsp4th-generation-terminator-chip-1269208800/ |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }}

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.{{Cite news |work= News release |title= Chelsio Announces Terminator 5 ASIC 40 Gigabit Ethernet iWARP RDMA, iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, NIC Engine |url= http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chelsio-announces-terminator-5-asic-40-gigabit-ethernet-iwarp-rdma-iscsi-toe-fcoe-nic-engine-187875461.html |date=January 22, 2013 |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }}

Its products such as network interface controller cards are sold by distributors.{{Cite web |title= ColfaxDirect Serves up Chelsio T4 10Gb Ethernet Adapters |work=Inside HPC |url= http://insidehpc.com/2011/03/15/colfaxdirect-serves-up-chelsio-t4-10gb-ethernet-adapters/ |date= March 15, 2011 |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }}

The Chelsio Unified Storage Router product is also marketed by Dell,{{Cite web |title= Chelsio Unified Storage 10G/1G iSCSI-to-SAS Router |url= http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dfo&sku=a5890728 |work= Dell web site |accessdate= May 24, 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130628235313/http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dfo&sku=a5890728 |archivedate= June 28, 2013 }}

and was certified to work with tape drives from Quantum Corporation in 2011.{{Cite web |title= Quantum and Chelsio: Easy Tape Attach for IP SANs |url= http://www.quantum.com/iqdoc/doc.aspx?id=5821 |format= pdf |date= September 2, 2011 |accessdate= May 24, 2013 }}

Chelsio is involved with the OpenFabrics Alliance.{{Cite web |title= Open Fabrics Workshop to Focus on HPC, Big Data, and the Cloud |work=Inside HPC |url= http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/01/open-fabrics-workshop-to-focus-on-hpc-big-data-and-the-cloud/ |date= March 1, 2012 |accessdate= May 23, 2013 }}