AHA's Comprehensive Product Range

AHA Systems provides GZIP compression cards and support data rates up to 10.0 Gbps through the PCIe interface. These cards improve the speed and performance for almost any system implementing compression. Target markets include :

• Internet hosting platforms
• SAN servers, applications servers, web servers, video servers and load balancers
• Virtual Tape Library systems
• Point-to-point communications links
• SSL accelerators

Based on the Open Standard GZIP Data Compression Algorithm, the AHA367-PCIe card supports full-duplex streaming of over 10.0 Gbits/sec uncompressed data using an industry standard X8 lane PCI-Express Interface. The system achieves GZIP compression ratios at an average of three to one.
The AHA367-PCIe is the fastest GZIP compression/decompression solution available and is several times faster than the closest competitive solutions. The AHA367-PCIe is ideal for SAN servers, virtual tape emulation backup and recovery systems, point-to-point communication link servers and SSL accelerators. The AHA363-PCIe will improve the speed and performance for nearly any system requiring compression or decompression.

Features:

• 3.6:1 Canterbury corpus compression ratio
• Full GZIP algorithm compliance
• X8 PCI Express Interface
• Uses 4 AHA3610 IC’s
• 10.0 Gbits/sec uncompressed throughput
• Efficient scatter gather DMA
• Single stream or intermixed streams
• Full duplex operation
• Software drivers and source code
• Linux and Windows reference drivers
• Software option available for direct interface to Windows IIS

The AHA363-PCIe is a PCI-e plug in card that adds GZIP compression and decompression to data networking streams. This card supports data rates of over 5.0 gigabits per second. Communication and storage networks require high-speed compression solutions to provide low latency links. Compression also saves valuable media space when storing files to disk or tape.

Features

• Open standard compression algorithm (GZIP/Deflate)
• Performs both compression and decompression
• Compresses and decompresses at a throughput rate over 5.0 Gbits/sec
• Uses patented hardware compression integrated circuits
• PCI-Express card interface
• ASCII text compresses greater than 3.0:1
• Scatter Gather DMA
• 64-bit OS support
• Linux reference drivers with source code
• SMP and Hypterthreading support
• 32-bit and 64-bit Linux kernel support
• Full Windows support
• Software option available for direct interface to Windows IIS
• Operating voltage 3.3V