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Solidum Systems

Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. The company developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Some of their devices could be found in systems which supported 10 Gbit/s interfaces.

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Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. The company developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Some of their devices could be found in systems which supported 10 Gbit/s interfaces.

Solidum was acquired in October 2002 by Integrated Device Technology. IDT closed the Ottawa offices supporting the product in March 2009.1

Misha Nossik was also the second chairman of the Network Processing Forum. The NPF also released the Look-Aside Interface which is an important specification for Network Search Elements such as Solidum's devices.

Products

Solidum produced a set of Traffic Classification devices called the PAX.port 1100,2 PAX.port 1200, and PAX.port 25003

The classifier chips were used in Network Switches4 and Load Balancers.

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  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Idti - Nasdaq". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  4. "Solidum PAX.port 1200 to Provide Classification for Harbour Networks Edge Switch". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-25.