
• Intelligent Network Interface Cards
• Support entire protocol processing completely in hardware
(hardware protocol offload engines)
• Provide a rich communication interface to applications
– User-level communication capability
– Gets rid of intermediate data buffering requirements
• No software signaling between communication layers
– All layers are implemented on a dedicated hardware unit, and not
on a shared host CPU
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