Comtech AHA Announces Apache GZIP Compression Module for AHA363-PCIe GZIP Accelerator Board
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Wednesday October 8, 9:00 am ET
Hardware Compression Solution to Greatly Reduce Download Times, CPU Load and Power Consumption
MOSCOW, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Comtech AHA Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) that develops technology for the communications, networking and data storage markets, today announced the availability of a GZIP compression module for Apache Web Servers.
The Apache HTTP Server currently supports GZIP compression of Web content (i.e. file data); however, enabling GZIP compression in software typically swamps the CPU on heavily loaded Web servers. Thus, installing the Comtech AHA GZIP accelerator board, with the Apache plug-in software, will offload the GZIP compression function to a hardware co-processor, and greatly reduce the time to serve Web content. This solution creates much shorter download times for the user and can increase the number of clients handled by the server using the same bandwidth.
Comtech AHA’s compression module greatly reduces CPU load with its on-board Scatter/Gather DMA engine. Hardware-based GZIP compression, using Comtech AHA’s accelerator board, is much more power efficient than a software-based GZIP solution. Power consumption relative to the GZIP compression throughput is five times lower compared to a Quad Core CPU running software-based GZIP.
“This product meets the needs of our customers by accelerating Web servers and saving power, and it can also be installed by any IT support person,” said Bill Thomson, president, Comtech AHA. “This software module coupled with our AHA363 compression board provides even a small size Web-hosting server with a cost-effective hardware accelerator solution, better enabling them to compete with much larger companies.” |
