Web Server Accelerator

[Jim Barrentine]

I just read a review (in PC Mag, April 24) of a device called a device 
called a Alacritech 100x4 Quad Port Server Adapter.  Apparently this thing 
is a NIC card on steroids.  If offloads all TCP/IP processing from the NT 
box as well as provides up to 4 100 meg ports for network attachment.  The 
article claimed a 100% performance improvement in HTTP gets for an NT box 
with this card installed.  This thing costs $700, so it would be a gonga 
deal if it really did double web server capacity.

Anybody got any experience with this thing?  See

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2708579,00.html

for the article.

Jim



James K. Barrentine
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