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ChelsioCommunicationsisaprivatelyheldtechnology companyheadquarteredinSunnyvale,Californiawitha designcenterinBangalore,India.Earlyventurecapital fundingcamefromHorizonsVentures,[1]Invesco, InvestorGrowthCapital,NTTFinance,VendantaCapital, AbacusCapitalGroup,PacesetterCapitalGroup,and NewEnterpriseAssociates.[2]Athirdroundoffunding raised$25millioninlate2004.[3]LSICorporationwas addedasinvestorin2006intheseriesDround.[4]By January2008,a$25Mfinancingroundwasannouncedas seriesE.[5]In2009,anadditional$17Mwasraisedfrom previousinvestorsplusMobileInternetCapital.[6]

ChelsioCommunications

Type Industry

Privatelyheldcompany Semiconductors Electronics

Headquarters Sunnyvale,California,U.S. Employees 175

www.chelsio.com Website Chelsiosellshardwareandsoftwaresolutionsincluding (http://www.chelsio.com/) protocolaccelerationtechnology,UnifiedWireEthernet networkadaptercards,unifiedstoragesoftware,high performancestoragegateways,unifiedmanagementsoftware,bypasscards,andothersolutions.Chelsiowas anearlyvendorof10GigabitEthernettechnology,announcingaproductin2004,[7]analliancewith FoundryNetworks,[8]andmeasurementsin2005.[9]ChelsioproductswereusedtobuildtheCoates supercomputeratPurdueUniversityin2009.[10]InAugust2009ChelsioannouncedtheUnifiedStorage Softwareproducttoprovidestorageareanetworkandnetworkattachedstoragefunctions.[11]

Thecompanyholdsseveralpatents,datingfromoneforreducedoverheaddirectmemoryaccess(DMA) initiallyfiledin2002.[12]Afourthgenerationwasannouncedin2011.[13]InJanuary2013Chelsio announcedtheTerminator5applicationspecificintegratedcircuit,whichbringsallofthecompany'sprotocol accelerationtechnologyto40Gbit/sspeeds,withtheroadmapto100Gbit/sscheduledfor2015.[14]Its productssuchasnetworkinterfacecontrollercardsaresoldbydistributors.[15]TheChelsioUnifiedStorage RouterproductisalsomarketedbyDell,[16]andwascertifiedtoworkwithtapedrivesfromQuantum Corporationin2011.[17]ChelsioisinvolvedwiththeOpenFabricsAlliance.[18]

References
1. ^"Portfolio"(http://www.horizonvc.com/portfolio.html).HorizonsVentures.RetrievedMay23,2013. 2. ^"PortfolioInvestments"(http://www.nea.com/Portfolio/CompanyDetail.aspx?id=1290).NewEnterprise Associates.RetrievedMay24,2013. 3. ^"Chelsioadds$25Minfunding"(http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/01/17/daily16.html). SanJose BusinessJournal.January17,2005.RetrievedMay28,2013. 4. ^LoringWirbel(June19,2006)."LSILogicinvestsin10GbitEthernetcardmakerChelsio" (http://www.eetimes.com/electronicsnews/4061663/LSILogicinvestsin10GbitEthernetcardmakerChelsio/). EETimes.RetrievedMay24,2013. 5. ^"ChelsioRaises$25MillioninPrivateFunding"(http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/03/chelsioraises25millionin privatefunding/). InsideHPC.January3,2008.RetrievedMay24,2013.
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6. ^"ChelsioAnnounces$17MinPrivateFunding"(http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/16/chelsioannounces17min privatefunding/). InsideHPC.November16,2009.RetrievedMay24,2013. 7. ^PhilHochmuth(May24,2004)."Newhardwarebrings10GLANsclosertoreality" (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/052410gswitches.html). NetworkWorld.RetrievedMay23,2013. 8. ^JeffCaruso(November23,2004)."Foundry,Chelsiostrike10Gigabitalliance" (http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2004/1122lan1.html). NetworkWorld.RetrievedMay23,2013. 9. ^JeffCaruso(July19,2005)."TCPOffloadlifts10GEthernetoverothertechnologies" (http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2005/0718lan1.html). NetworkWorld.RetrievedMay23,2013. 10. ^"PurduebuildsBigTen'sbiggestcomputer,again" (http://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2009b/090720McCartneyCoates.html). Newsrelease(PurdueUniversity).July20, 2009.RetrievedMay23,2013. 11. ^ChrisMellor(August27,2009)."ChelsioimitatesLeftHandNetworks:LaunchesnewUSSenterprise" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/chelsio_lhn_copy/). TheRegister.RetrievedMay24,2013. 12. ^USpatent6,813,652(http://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US6,813,652),Mark Stadler,AsgeirThorEiriksson,andKianooshNaghshineh,"ReducedoverheadDMA"PCTfiledApril11,2002, publishedNovember2,2004 13. ^"ChelsioAnnounces4thGenerationTerminatorChip"(http://www.chelsio.com/chelsioannouncesnbsp4th generationterminatorchip1269208800/). Newsrelease.RetrievedMay23,2013. 14. ^"ChelsioAnnouncesTerminator5ASIC40GigabitEthernetiWARPRDMA,iSCSI,TOE,FCoE,NICEngine" (http://www.prnewswire.com/newsreleases/chelsioannouncesterminator5asic40gigabitethernetiwarprdma iscsitoefcoenicengine187875461.html). Newsrelease.January22,2013.RetrievedMay23,2013. 15. ^"ColfaxDirectServesupChelsioT410GbEthernetAdapters"(http://insidehpc.com/2011/03/15/colfaxdirect servesupchelsiot410gbethernetadapters/). InsideHPC.March15,2011.RetrievedMay23,2013. 16. ^"ChelsioUnifiedStorage10G/1GiSCSItoSASRouter"(http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx? c=us&l=en&s=dfo&sku=a5890728). Dellwebsite.RetrievedMay24,2013. 17. ^"QuantumandChelsio:EasyTapeAttachforIPSANs"(http://www.quantum.com/iqdoc/doc.aspx?id=5821) (pdf).September2,2011.RetrievedMay24,2013. 18. ^"OpenFabricsWorkshoptoFocusonHPC,BigData,andtheCloud"(http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/01/open fabricsworkshoptofocusonhpcbigdataandthecloud/). InsideHPC.March1,2012.RetrievedMay23,2013.

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