for those who may be interested, i did a bit of digging on XaQti (shäk tí -- pronounced "shock-tee"). following's a wee bit on their product line.
also, fwiw, appears they got a second influx of cash from a number of VC firms a few months ago:
Leading Venture Capital Firms Invest Additional $9.1 Million in Packet Processing Leader, XaQti
February 17, 1999
p3p.com
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GigaPOWER and TerraPOWER
GigaPOWER is the Industry's first Active Flow Processor™ with an integrated Multi-Speed Ethernet Media Access Controller. GigaPOWER is designed for use in switches and routers implementing IP QoS and other functions which require packet processing.
TeraPOWER is XaQti's flagship product family consisting of multiple chips that form the building-blocks of any switching or routing system. The first chip from the family is the TeraPOWER-CL, which contains multiple Active Flow Processors.
XMACII
The XMAC II is the industry's first Half Duplex and Full Duplex Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller. The XMAC II meets the requirements of the IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet standard and is in full production.
Gigabit Ethernet Tools GDKII, AFP Tools
The GDK II is a PCI-based tester for Gigabit Ethernet ports. This tester has features that are comparable to a full-priced, full-featured tester, yet is a fraction of the cost.
The GigaPOWER Reference Design Kit is an integrated environment consisting of a PCI-based evaluation board, and a Win'95 GUI for rapid code development. The GigaPOWER RDK is capable of generating traffic at various speeds - 10Mb, 100Mb, and 1Gb.
The GigaPOWER System Design Kit is a Win'95 development environment for developing the firmware for GigaPOWER applications. This free tool includes examples for parsing IPv4, IPX, VLAN, ToS, and other protocol types. |
