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News Release from: Comtech AHA Corp | Subject: AHA362-PCIX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 April 2005
Compression board accelerates
communications
The AHA362-PCIX is the second board in Comtech AHA's newest line of GZIP compression products.
Comtech AHA announces the availability of its AHA362-PCIX GZIP board This PCI-X plug-in card adds GZIP compression and decompression to data networking streams and supports datarates up to 3.0Gbit/s
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AHA362-PCIX is the second board in Comtech AHA's newest line of GZIP compression products.
The AHA361-PCIX compression-only board was released in February 2004 and supports data throughputs of 2.4Gbit/s.
Comtech AHA's AHA362-PCIX is the only GZIP compression/decompression solution available that offers the high speed performance required by networking and storage systems today.
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Target markets for the AHA362-PCIX include SAN servers, virtual tape emulation backup and recovery systems, point-to-point communication link servers and SSL accelerators.
The AHA362-PCIX GZIP board will improve speed and performance for nearly any system requiring both compression and decompression.
"We are excited to introduce the AHA362-PCIX GZIP compression board", said Bill Thomson, President of Comtech AHA.
"Our first GZIP board, the AHA361-PCIX, has been generating significant interest, especially in the load balance and web server markets, but did not fit for some other markets that require a full duplex solution".
"We recognised the need for a compression/decompression board and quickly worked to create a solution that will benefit customers in those markets which include storage area networking (SAN) and virtual tape emulation".
The AHA362-PCIX board supports the open standard compression algorithm (GZIP/Deflate) and uses patented hardware compression integrated circuits.
Uncompressed data is sent to the board via the PCI-X edge card interface, compressed, and the output is transferred back to the host over the same PCI-X interface.
Decompression follows the same path as the compression data path, except that the input compressed data is decompressed to its original state.
The AHA362-PCIX board is field re-programmable, enabling simple firmware updates.
The AHA362-PCIX operates at 133MHz and offers 64bit OS support, Linux reference drivers with source code, 2.4/2.6 Linux kernel support, SMP and Hyperthreading support, and 32bit/64bit Linux kernel support.
The AHA362-PCIX GZIP board can accept any data type including HTML, JavaScript, XML, Office documents, executables (.exe), Cascade Style Sheets (CSS), PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations.
Pricing starts at $950 per unit with quantity discounts available for larger volumes.
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