Caught in the net
Intel has used a tiny fraction of its recently announced two billion dollar profit to snap up the assets of NetEffect, a company that produced Ethernet products for servers, for eight million dollars.
The acquisition is intended to supplement Intel's current portfolio of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) server adapters with high performance network interface card products.
"NetEffect's role as a data communications solution provider and the company's technology will enhance Intel's current Ethernet efforts," said Tom Swinford, GM of Intel's LAN Access Division.
"The combination of Intel and NetEffect technology will allow Intel to address our customers' most important 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs, including server virtualization, convergence of network and storage traffic, and server compute clusters."
