Chelsio Communications is a privately held technology company headquartered in

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with a design center in

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. Early

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funding came from

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, Investor Growth Capital, NTT Finance, Vendanta Capital, Abacus Capital Group, Pacesetter Capital Group, and

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. A third round of funding raised $25 million in late 2004.

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was added as investor in 2006 in the series D round. By January 2008, a $25M financing round was announced as series E. In 2009, an additional $17M was raised from previous investors plus Mobile Internet Capital. Chelsio sells hardware and software solutions including protocol acceleration technology, Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions. Chelsio was an early vendor of

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technology, announcing a product in 2004, an alliance with

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, and measurements in 2005. Chelsio products were used to build the Coates supercomputer at

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in 2009. In August 2009 Chelsio announced the Unified Storage Software product to provide

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and

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functions. The company holds several patents, dating from one for reduced overhead

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(DMA) initially filed in 2002. A fourth generation was announced in 2011. In January 2013 Chelsio announced the Terminator 5

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, which brings all of the company's protocol acceleration technology to 40 Gbit/s speeds, with the roadmap to 100 Gbit/s scheduled for 2015. Its products such as

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cards are sold by distributors. The Chelsio Unified Storage Router product is also marketed by

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, and was certified to work with

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s from

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in 2011. Chelsio is involved with the

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