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Exablaze also sells NICs with an FPGA as does SolarFlare. You can get an FPGA in an Arista switch as well. Very cool stuff indeed.

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I don't think Arista sells that device anymore. Having said that, the Arista device (7124FX?) only had the FPGA on 8 out of 24 ports and the latency through the transceivers was pretty terrible. Very few people took it up.

The Solarflare device had (has?) the FPGA in a strange place, behind the NIC controller. AFAIK, the Exablaze NIC is pure FPGA which again saves on latency.

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