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Chelsio Communications has announced that it established a strategic partnership with ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, to co-develop a range of high performance networking solutions based on Chelsio's 10Gb Ethernet technology.

"Chelsio Communications has demonstrated its technology leadership in 10Gb Ethernet with a broad range of successful networking solutions, and ZTE is pleased to have Chelsio as a strategic partner," said Mr. Wei Wang, president of server and storage product lines for ZTE Corporation. "Chelsio is a recognized leader in data center convergence, storage and high performance computing markets, and Chelsio's Terminator technology is an excellent fit for a broad range of 10Gb Ethernet solutions."

"ZTE has one of the widest and most complete range of products in the telecommunications industry, and the company delivers innovative, custom-made solutions that help shape the future of world communications," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "Our recently announced Terminator 4 technology and Unified Storage Server software will help bring high performance 10Gb Ethernet connectivity to ZTE solutions."

Chelsio's Terminator is a 10GbE controller chip built around a programmable protocol-processing engine. The Terminator 4 represents Chelsio's fourth generation TCP offload (TOE) design, third generation iSCSI design, and second generation iWARP RDMA implementation. In addition to full TCP and iSCSI offload, the T4 supports for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload. The software-based Unified Storage Server (USS 1.1) enables users to convert any x86 or Power PC based platform into a storage target, supporting not just iSCSI SANs but NAS protocols as well.