NEW! Monterey Reference Architecture Performance Test Results
Monterey West with BLADE Network Technologies RackSwitch, Citrix XenServer, and Solarflare 10GbE Server Adapters

STAC-M2 HIGHLIGHTS: 29West LBM 3.6.1, Cisco UCS C200M1, Nehalem, 10GigE, SolarFlare, Cisco Nexus 5010 (SUT: LBM100402) | STAC Report: April 2010

Solace, Solarflare and Arista Demonstrate Market Data Distribution with Low, Consistent Latency

Achieving Low, Consistent Latency in Market Data Distribution with Solace, Cisco and Solarflare

Using 10GBASE-T Products for Energy Efficient Data Centers
By Solarflare CTO & Founder, George Zimmerman, Ph.D.

10GBASE-T products provide data center managers and architects with unique capabilities to implement energy efficient data centers. Their use of structured cabling enables cooling and power distribution efficiencies through flexibility in equipment location, leveraging the hundreds of watts consumed by the server or switch. Solarflare® 10GBASE-T lowers the average power consumed by each port by using only the power each link length requires with its Dynamic Power Scaling™ feature. Additionally, 10GBASE-T enables Wake-on-LAN and saves power by turning off entire servers when they are not needed, saving hundreds of watts in each instance. In the future, 10GBASE-T will also provide IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet to further improve energy efficiency lowering consumption when the full capacity of the 10Gbps link is unused.

Ultra Low Latency without the Pain
By Solarflare Chief Software Architect, Dr. David Riddoch

STAC meetings bring together the industry leaders who are building and using the latest low-latency, high-performance solutions for trading. Dr. David Riddoch has presented at several Innovation Roundups during Stac Performance Summits. His presentation summarizes recent performance data which shows that Solarflare Solarstorm® 10GbE server adapters with OpenOnload™ can achieve 5 microsecond TCP/UDP application latency while supporting the transmission of millions of messages per second with no need to change applications or run new protocols on the wire.

NEW! Arista and Solarflare White Paper 10G Ethernet: The Foundation for Low-Latency, Real-Time Financial Services Applications and Other, Future Cloud Applications: August 2009

Latency Busters Messaging 3.3.9 with Cisco Catalyst 4900M 10GigE Switch and Solarflare NIC with OpenOnload Less than 19 microseconds of mean latency with less than 6 microseconds of standard deviation at rates up to 125Kmps in a low-latency configuration with OpenOnload | STAC Report: June 2009

Solarflare Solarstorm® 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller Report
A Broadband-Testing Report; April 2008

Steve Pope and David Riddoch Deliver Google Tech Talk "The OpenOnload User-level Network Stack" See full presentation on YouTube – Posted February 15, 2008

Getting 10 Gb/s from Xen: Safe and Fast Device Access from Unprivileged Domains Paper presented by Solarflare at Euro-Par 07, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

TIA-942 Data Center Networking Applications: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Over Twisted-pair Copper

Look for power tradeoffs in 10GBASE-T Ethernet

Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration White Paper

Twisted-pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking

10GBASE-T Testing of Belden IBDN® System 10GX
The transmission of 10GBASE-T over copper UTP cables comes through with flying colors in third party testing of the Belden IBDNystem 10GX.

Ethernet Alliance: 10GBASE-T: 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Twisted-pair Copper
By various authors including Bruce Tolley and George Zimmerman

Net-interface accelerators can be a help or hindrance
By Steven Pope, PhD and David Riddoch, PhD

End of the Road for TCP Offload
By Steven Pope, PhD and David Riddoch, PhD

Alien crosstalk field testing: BICSI Newsletter, March Issue

Unleashing the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Market Proving 10GBASE-T Performance and Reliability Under Worst-Case Conditions
by Bruce Tolley

Solarstorm 10 GbE Controller Presentation
Simple, robust, easy Simple, robust, easy-to to-use Ethernet use Ethernet
By Dr. Steven Pope, John Marcolini and Bruce Tolley
World’s lowest-power, highest-performance 10Gb Ethernet controller silicon

100 Meter Analyst Presentation
By Bruce Tolley and George Zimmerman
This presentation describes the testing of the first 100meter, standard-reach compliant 10GBASE-T links at Solarflare in September 2006.

10GBASE-T Fact Sheet
This quick reference sheet answers most of the basic questions about the capabilities and requirements for standards-compliant 10GBASE-T transceivers.

DesignLine Article
By Bruce Tolley and George Zimmerman
As the 10GBASE-T standard neared publication in 2006, Solarflare described the key challenges to 10 Gigabit Ethernet transmission in this Network Systems DesignLine article.

Challenges for 10Gb/s Implementation on UTP Media
By George Zimmerman
Presented as an invited talk at the IEEE Laser and ElectroOptical Society’s High Speed Interconnect Conference in May 2006. This paper summarizes the major technical challenges and solutions to providing standards-compliant 10 G Ethernet transmission over unshielded twisted pair.

Innovative Technologies Enabling 10GBASE-T
By George Zimmerman
Presented at the Network Systems Design Conference in October 2005. This presentation addresses the need for 100 meter standardized 10GBASE-T, the status and capabilities in the standard, and solutions to achieving 100 meter reach within an economical power budget.

10GBASE-T: Beyond Limits
By Chris DiMinico
Presented to the Building Industry Consultant Service International (BICSI) meeting in August 2005. This presentation highlights cabling, installation, and test challenges and solutions for 10GBASE-T networks.

Challenges for 10 GB/s Implementation on UTP Media
By George Zimmerman
This technical presentation was made as an invited seminar to the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, and provides a relatively complete overview of the coding and signal processing embodied in standards-compliant 10GBASE-T transceivers.

Copper at the Speed of Light: 10GBASE-T
By George Zimmerman
Presented as an “Ethernet Update” at the 2004 Next Generation Networks Conference, this presentation describes the need for 10 Gigabit Ethernet on twisted-pair copper media, as well as the status and path towards the 802.3an standard.

How SolarFlare Communications Broke the 10 Gbps on UTP Barrier
By Ron Cates
This presentation at the HotChips 2004 conference describes Solarflare’s prestandard integrated silicon which resulted in the worlds first 50m Cat5e and Cat6 10Gigabit Ethernet transmissions in 2004.

IEEE 802.3 10GBASE-T tutorial
By George Zimmerman, et al.
After convincing skeptics in November 2003 that 10GBASE-T was feasible in the first phase of the IEEE standard, Solarflare led this follow-up tutorial to the IEEE 802.3 body, which launched the actual writing of the 10GBASE-T standard.

Challenges for 10Gb/s Implementation on UTP Media
By George Zimmerman
This paper discusses some of the requirements for 10GBASE-T and presents simulation results for Solarflare’s pre-standard, world’s-first demonstration of 10 Gigabit Ethernet transmission over UTP. The presentation is accompanied by a written, published paper, presented at the 2003 Communications Design Conference.

Solarflare IEEE Tutorial Presentation
By George Zimmerman
Solarflare initiated the IEEE 10GBASE-T Study Group activity with this tutorial, describing technical challenges and solutions to 10Gbps Ethernet transmission over twisted pair.