GENROCO has reported achieving a record 127 megabytes per second (MB/s) of sustained TCP/IP throughput using the company's GSN-6466 PCI Gigabyte Systems Network (GSN) host bus adapter (HBA) on a Sun UltraTM 60 workstation running the SolarisTM Operating Environment (OE). In June at a Sun benchmarking center in Portland, GENROCO demonstrated a new Sun FireTM 6800 Server receiving 270 MB/s via TCP/IP with the GSN HBA -- better than twice the December record.

"We have now clearly shown customers and partners that our company can deliver real, open systems interfaces which can sustain streams of uncompressed HDTV, 4K film, and other high bandwidth imaging," Don Woelz, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for GENROCO, said. "GENROCO is grateful to be working with Sun on pushing the edge of the data movement envelope. We believe we can further improve on these results in the months to come."

TCP/IP is the basic communication language or protocol used on the Internet and most private computer networks. PCI is an open computer interconnection system between a microprocessor and attached devices in which expansion slots are spaced closely for high speed operation. Developed by Intel as a local CPU bus, PCI is now designed to be independent of microprocessor design. PCI is installed on most new UNIXR servers and desktop computers.

GSN is the first ANSI standard, gigabyte-per-second network interface. This technology represents the highest bandwidth and lowest latency open interconnect, providing full duplex 8000 megabits per second of error-free, flow-controlled data transmission.

GENROCO plans to demonstrate high performance storage and network benchmarks at several industry and customer events during the next several weeks. In fact, GENROCO expects to announce several GSN design wins during the next several months.

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