Afore's ASE3300 is targeted at data centers seeking to accelerate virtualization, applications, and storage networking over Ethernet and IP WANs. The ASE3300 offers Fiber Channel, and IP optimization capabilities such as Gigabit rate lossless data compression and network packet loss immunity and recovery.

Secure wide area network connectivity comes in the form of AES-256 bit network encryption. The encryption process operates on a per port basis and provides flexibility, supporting IP, Metro Ethernet and legacy wide area networks.

Additional features include:

- EtherPACK - The ASE3300 has a dedicated hardware compression engine for each client port, providing low latency compression of multiple Gigabit rate interfaces. EtherPACK offers a transparent mode of operation enabling any network protocol and application to be compressed. Compression ratios up to and exceeding 10:1 with latency in microseconds have been observed in live network deployments.

- EtherCORRECT - The ASE3300 re-sequences out of order frames and detects/recovers entire packets that have been dropped due to congestion or network errors using a packet level error recovery algorithm. This accelerates TCP/IP based application performance by eliminating re-transmissions.

- SAN-XTEND - The ASE3300 enables SAN extension between geographically diverse data centers covering distances of thousands of kilometers. SAN-XTEND enables disaster recovery and synchronized back-up for both Fibre Channel and Ethernet deployments.

- JumboSLICE - The ASE3300 can fragment large frames into smaller frames (max size programmable) at GigE rates with low latency. Frames are re-assembled at the far end, ensuring the process is transparent to the customer application.

- HyperTUNNEL - The ASE3300 offers high speed WAN encapsulation technology for tunneling aggregated LAN and SAN traffic across Metro Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks. The ASE3300 delivers high-speed, low latency transparent connectivity between remote server groups enabling applications which traditionally operate within a single data center such as VMotion to now extend between data centers.

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