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Startup Joins SAN Processor Trend: Page 3 of 3

All these companies say they're looking to improve the performance of storage devices and servers by offloading the intensive processing required in storage networks, particularly those that deploy emerging protocols, such as iSCSI or Fibre Channel over IP.

Like the network processors that have emerged in other areas of networking over the past year, these new chips are aimed at handling tasks that otherwise would require complex and costly ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits).

Aarohi seems to share this focus. It's got job openings for software engineers with expertise in "TCP/IP internals," Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SCSI, as well as real-time operating systems and CPU internals. One of the startup's engineers, Sriram Rupanagunta, helped author the Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) documents in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)