Takes No.1 place in Fibre Channel over Ethernet
QLogic’s recent launch of its third-generation converged network adapters, dubbed 3GCNA, is important in that it builds upon the company’s first place market share in 10GbE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) CNAs and a second place finish behind market leader Intel for 10GbE NICs.
QLogic’s recent launch of its third-generation converged network adapters, dubbed 3GCNA, is important in that it builds upon the company’s first place market share in 10Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) CNAs and a second place finish behind market leader Intel for 10G Etherhent network interface cards.
Second quarter 2010 results from the Dell’Oro Group show that QLogic commands market share for FCoE CNAs with over 58%, trailed by Emulex with 39% and other vendors with only 2.4% of the market. For 10 GbE adapters, QLogic, who first marked its entry in the 10 GbE market just over one year ago, had second place results of nearly 16%, following Intel’s lead of 22%. Dell’Oro forecasts that the 10GbE adapter market will grow from $200 million in 2010 to nearly $800 million by 2014
The 8200 Series 10GbE CNA, 3200 Series 10GbE Adapter and the 8200 Series converged LOM (cLOM) are based on the Network Plus Architecture single-chip technology that first made its appearance in 8100 Series CNAs, but add some innovative hardware and software capabilities that help customers realize requirements of the changing data center.
The QLogic 3GCNA, third-generation CNAs, NICs and cLOMs use a single-chip architecture and can run iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Ethernet concurrently and non-disruptively.
The 8200 Series 10GbE CNA, 3200 Series 10GbE Adapter and 8200 Series cLOM provide switch-agnostic virtual-machine to virtual-machine communication within physical machines, allowing high mobility of virtual machines. They are flexible in their deployment and are operating system (Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris) and protocol-agnostic, supporting TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE at launch. Other protocols for the HPC sector can be supported based on OEMs’ specific requirements.
Further, the cLOMs can be deployed as quad 1G Ethernet or dual 10G Ethernet ports and support the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (replaces the BIOS interface between the OS and firmware), Open Firmware, Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) and BIOS interfaces.
The QLogic 3GCNAs ship with a number of software services: VMflex, ConvergeFlex, FlexOffload and SecureFlex. VMflex provides advanced virtualization services, while ConvergeFlex offers concurrent protocol processing and FlexOffload provides multiple protocol offload services. SecureFlex provides data security services.
