industry semiconductors electronics communications founded 2000 ; 16 years ago 2000 sunnyvale california headquarters sunnyvale california u.s. number of employees 175 website www.chelsio.com chelsio communications is a privately held technology company headquartered in sunnyvale california with a design center in bangalore india . early venture capital funding came from horizons ventures 1 invesco investor growth capital ntt finance vendanta capital abacus capital group pacesetter capital group and new enterprise associates . 2 a third round of funding raised 25 million in late 2004 . 3 lsi corporation was added as investor in 2006 in the series d round . 4 by january 2008 a 25m financing round was announced as series e. 5 in 2009 an additional 17m was raised from previous investors plus mobile internet capital . 6 chelsio sells hardware and software solutions including protocol acceleration technology unified wire ethernet network adapter cards unified storage software high performance storage gateways unified management software bypass cards and other solutions . chelsio was an early vendor of 10 gigabit ethernet technology announcing a product in 2004 7 an alliance with foundry networks 8 and measurements in 2005 . 9 chelsio products were used to build the coates supercomputer at purdue university in 2009 . 10 in august 2009 chelsio announced the unified storage software product to provide storage area network and network attached storage functions . 11 the company holds several patents dating from one for reduced overhead direct memory access dma initially filed in 2002 . 12 a fourth generation was announced in 2011 . 13 in january 2013 chelsio announced the terminator 5 application specific integrated circuit which brings all of the company s protocol acceleration technology to 40 gbit s speeds with the roadmap to 100 gbit s scheduled for 2015 . 14 its products such as network interface controller cards are sold by distributors . 15 the chelsio unified storage router product is also marketed by dell 16 and was certified to work with tape drives from quantum corporation in 2011 . 17 chelsio is involved with the openfabrics alliance . 18 references edit portfolio . horizons ventures . retrieved may 23 2013 . portfolio investments . new enterprise associates . retrieved may 24 2013 . chelsio adds 25m in funding . san jose business journal . january 17 2005 . retrieved may 28 2013 . loring wirbel june 19 2006 . lsi logic invests in 10 gbit ethernet card maker chelsio . ee times . retrieved may 24 2013 . chelsio raises 25 million in private funding . inside hpc . january 3 2008 . retrieved may 24 2013 . chelsio announces 17m in private funding . inside hpc . november 16 2009 . retrieved may 24 2013 . phil hochmuth may 24 2004 . new hardware brings 10g lans closer to reality . network world . retrieved may 23 2013 . jeff caruso november 23 2004 . foundry chelsio strike 10 gigabit alliance . network world . retrieved may 23 2013 . jeff caruso july 19 2005 . tcp offload lifts 10g ethernet over other technologies . network world . retrieved may 23 2013 . purdue builds big ten s biggest computer again . news release . purdue university . july 20 2009 . retrieved may 23 2013 . chris mellor august 27 2009 . chelsio imitates lefthand networks launches new uss enterprise . the register . retrieved may 24 2013 . us patent 6 813 652 mark stadler asgeir thor eiriksson and kianoosh naghshineh reduced overhead dma pct filed april 11 2002 published november 2 2004 chelsio announces 4th generation terminator chip . news release . retrieved may 23 2013 . chelsio announces terminator 5 asic 40 gigabit ethernet iwarp rdma iscsi toe fcoe nic engine . news release . january 22 2013 . retrieved may 23 2013 . colfaxdirect serves up chelsio t4 10gb ethernet adapters . inside hpc . march 15 2011 . retrieved may 23 2013 . chelsio unified storage 10g 1g iscsi to sas router . dell web site . retrieved may 24 2013 . quantum and chelsio easy tape attach for ip sans pdf . september 2 2011 . retrieved may 24 2013 . open fabrics workshop to focus on hpc big data and the cloud . inside hpc . march 1 2012 . retrieved may 23 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chelsio communications & oldid 739364451 categories fabless semiconductor companieselectronics companies of the united statescompanies based in sunnyvale california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was 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