Ethernet Unified Wire

November 15, 2006

Kianoosh Naghshineh, CEOkianoosh@chelsio.com

www.chelsio.com

ChelsioChelsioCommunicationsCommunications

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Pioneering Unified WireUnified 10Gb Ethernet NetworkUnified 10Gb Ethernet Network

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• Improves CPU efficiencyImproves CPU efficiency• Minimizes software licensesMinimizes software licenses• Simplifies data center wiringSimplifies data center wiring• Leverages staffing skills & toolsLeverages staffing skills & tools

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

• Improves cluster performanceImproves cluster performance• Lowers application latencyLowers application latency• Faster backup and recoveryFaster backup and recovery• Enables storage applicationsEnables storage applications

Higher Performance and New Apps

Convergence Benefits

Simplified network architecture – reduced operating costsSimplified network architecture – reduced operating costs

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Key Market Drivers

Criteria Market Drivers / Enablers

Unit Growth

3x volume growth in the 10GbE NIC market in 2006 (synergy report) 3x volume growth in 10GbE switch market in 2006 (Dell’Oro) iSCSI market growing at 50% per quarter

Infrastructure

High density 10GbE switches available now OpenFabrics released can run IB apps unmodified, channel product Chimney OS released All NICs become TNICs in channel iSCSI Target & Initiator ready can begin to replace FC Middleware partnerships in place can run FC apps unmodified

Prices

XFP over 12 months: prices halved CX4 switch port at $700/port list price now 10G CX4 RNIC at $995. Expected to be halved by 4Q07

Standards 10G CX4 (copper media) introduced and shipping 10G-baseT switches and cards expected by 1Q07

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Current Shipping Products

Full TCP/IP Offload (TOE)Full iSCSI Target solutionCX4 copper or XFP fiber

Highest performance and CPU efficiency

T210 10GbET210 10GbEProtocol EngineProtocol Engine

N210 10GbEN210 10GbEServer AdapterServer Adapter

10Gb Ethernet NICLinux, Windows, Solaris

Turn-key software drivers

Easy-to-use server adapter for 10GbE connectivity

4-port Gigabit Ethernet Full TCP/IP Offload (TOE)Full iSCSI Target solution

Best price/performance for servers & IP SANs

T204 4GbET204 4GbEProtocol EngineProtocol Engine

2nd generation products shipping in volume since Feb 2005 Over 140 customers in 20 countries using Chelsio adapters Strong foundation for 3rd generation ‘unified wire’ solution Holder of all but one of the current Land Speed Records

CX4 copper orXFP SR/LR optics PCI-Express or

PCI-X bus interface

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Introducing Terminator 3 (T3)

T3 ASICT3 ASIC T310 10GbET310 10GbEPCI-Express or PCI-X 2.0PCI-Express or PCI-X 2.0

T302 2x1GbET302 2x1GbEPCI-ExpressPCI-Express

PCIe x8 or PCI-X 2.0 10GbE CX4 or XFP NIC+TOE+iSCSI+RDMA 32K connections iSCSI Target+Initiator Full-duplex 10Gbbps

line-rate performance ½ length form factor

PCIe x4 2-port Gigabit Ethernet NIC+TOE+iSCSI+RDMA 32K connections iSCSI Target+Initiator 2 x 1000BASE-T ports Low-profile form factor

PCIe x8 or PCI-X 2.0 2x10G or 2x1G Ethernet NIC+TOE+iSCSI+RDMA Up to 1M connections ACPI, IPMI, SMBus, I2C 0.13um TSMC LV ~11W typical power 37mm FCGBA

PCI-Express orPCI-X bus interface

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Superior PerformanceSuperior Performance

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Source: Independently verified by VeriTest, Inc.Test tool: netperfTest configuration: 2 systems connected through 10GbE switch running single TCP channel with 1500-byte Ethernet framesSystem configuration: AMD Opteron 248 2.2GHz uniprocessor running Linux kernel 2.6.6

Performed May 2003 by the world’s leading independent lab, VeriTest, Inc. TOE delivers ~2X network throughput vs. 10GbE NICs TOE shows ~1/2X CPU utilization vs. 10GbE NICs Net-net: TOE shows ~4X network efficiency vs. NICs No Jumbos, one connection to thousands of connections

Chelsio T110 TOE versus 10GbE NIC Network Performance

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Independent HPC Benchmarks Validate Performance

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10GbE has lower 10GbE has lower latency than latency than InfinibandInfiniband

Testing performed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and The Ohio State University

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RDMA & iSCSI

PCI-X 133MHZ 1.8GHZ Dual CPU OPTERON 1GB Memory Mellanox 4X SDR IB PCI-X HCA Chelsio T320X 10GbE PCI-X RNIC Point to point networks Using Open-IB derivative

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20 Initiators – MS iSCSI 2.0, 1GbEDell 2950, 2 x Intel 3GHz EM64T Dual Core Woodcrest, 8GB DDR-II 667MHz memoryLinux 2.6.17 SMP x86_64.T320e (T3b).iSCSI Target 2.0 release.Ramdisk. No CRC, TOE mode

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T3 Feature Summary

FeatureFeature DescriptionDescription

Hardware Integrated native PCIe 8x and PCI-X 2.0 266MHz interface Integrated 2 GigE or 2 10GbE ports with CX4/KX4 compliant XAUI

Architecture Cut-through processing architecture delivers 10Gbps wire rate & ultra low latency Scalable to 100Gbps and extendable to additional protocols (IPSec, SSL, XML, NFS) Flexible in cost, power, performance, programmability

Management PXE, EFI, Power Management

QoS Multiple queues for bandwidth resource provisioning and allocation Multiple channels for simultaneous high bandwidth/low latency operation

Virtualization Extensive receive and transmit features to support virtualization

Filtering Tens of thousands of filter rules in hardware, configurable in software, used for firewalls and virtualization

Traffic Manager Simultaneous per-connection and per-class rate control and bandwidth allocation

TOE 4x performance vs NIC Implements both Full and Partial TCP offload High performance even in demanding network environments (large RTT, packet loss)

DDP Zero-copy steering of payload data directly into application space for extremely low CPU utilization No modification to applications Line rate receive on 1 connection

iSCSI 16x performance vs NIC Chelsio offers complete commercial-grade iSCSI software stack for Linux for FREE

iWARP RDMA RDMAC & IETF compliant RNIC-PI, kDAPL and OpenIB software interfaces

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Competitive Analysis

Chelsio competes primarily with companies that develop Ethernet adapter cards and/or integrated circuits Indirect competition from other fabric technologies such as InfiniBand and Fibre

Channel Chelsio delivers a best-in-class, full-featured and seasoned solution

NIC TOE iSCSI RDMA 10GbE GbE 2-port PCI-2X PCIe VLIW

Chelsio ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ►

Broadcom ► ► ► ► ► ►

Emulex/Silverback ► ►

QLogic ► ►

Intel ► ► ►

Neterion ► ► ►

NetXen ► ► ► ► ► ►

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Why Chelsio

Very High Performance Very Low Latency High Transaction Rate High Bandwidth

Correct architecture Data Flow Processor produces a Scalable and Ideal Performance Profile

Value added features Integrated Traffic Manager Filtering Virtualization

3rd Generation – Robust, Seasoned Maximum guarantee of no late arriving QA bugs

Integrated High Performance ULP solutions – run IB or FC apps unmodified Commercial grade iSCSI stack integrated with hardware DDP facilities Fully integrated OpenFabrics RDMA software stack

Broad product offering – future protection 2x1Gb or 2x10Gb, iSCSI, RDMA, TOE, Chimney, NIC PCI-Express, PC-X 2.0, PCI-X 1.0

Reliable, predictable supplier (ISO 9001 certified) The only vendor with experience shipping Offload products to enterprise OEMs

Availability of software-only products

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Thank You