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Solarflare Communications’ Ethernet products address the data center, distributed computing, storage, and enterprise LAN infrastructure markets. The company is the leading developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer (10GBASE-T) and high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers which enable simple, cost-effective interconnect solutions that leverage the installed base of copper twisted pair cabling and Ethernet switching infrastructure.
The following tutorials and white papers (in PDF) discuss the evolution of the Ethernet market and give more insight into the challenges of making the transition from 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit. These challenges are met at each layer of the OSI stack, starting with the physical layer and 10GBASE-T up through the application layer, including media access and protocol processing. Solarflare Communications is positioned to address the challenges at each layer, providing a compelling solution to the marketplace, which will enable the widespread adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
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
Solarflare Solarstorm™ 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller Report;
A Broadband-Testing Report
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.