Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. The InfiniBand cards used by HPC centers have been doing this to speed up ...

Wi-Fi offloading allows mobile phones to redirect their data traffic from cellular networks to nearby Wi-Fi networks when ...

San Mateo, Calif. – There are generally two approaches to hardware design for Internet connections: Either you send raw packets from the media access controller into main memory and let the CPU deal ...

In the early days of computer networking, managing everything with the CPU (onloading) was the obvious choice because it provided a general-purpose computational engine that could perform a variety of ...

Various brands and configurations of virtual machine network interface cards, or VMNics, are known to cause occasional repetitive errors resulting in slowing the CPU's processing capacity. Three ...