both 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet connectivity, in single-, dual- and quad-port configurations. The following year, 2016, was a banner year for ATTO, introducing both 32Gb and 16Gb Gen 6 Celerity host bus adapters and debuted the renamed XstreamCORE storage controller, replacing all but a few of its Fibre Channel storage controllers. At the same time, ATTO's ExpressNAV software was rebranded as XstreamVIEW. ThunderLink and ThunderStream Thunderbolt connectivity devices now support Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 3 platforms and provide connectivity to 6Gb SAS/SATA RAID, Fibre Channel and 10Gb Ethernet networks. Thunderbolt 3 to 40Gb Ethernet and both 32Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel products were also introduced. Architecture With the introduction of XstreamCORE ATTO launched two new technologies to help their products stand out against competing architectures. xCORE IO Acceleration features multiple parallel IO acceleration engines with end to end IO processing, hardware buffer allocation management and real-time performance and latency analytics. These features combine to provide very high, reliable throughput and IOPS with deterministic latency of under 4 microseconds. Unlike general purpose processor based architectures xCORE maintains performance and latency as services and features are added. This is accomplished with the help of ATTO's other new technology the eCORE Control Engine. eCORE offloads non-data related commands from xCORE and adds common, open storage services, integrates with industry standard APIs, manages reservations, storage routing and host and mapping functions. The eCORE Control Engine also manages traffic for data mover offload with added error handling and diagnostic tools. These features add value to JBOD, JBOF or RAID storage while providing tight integration with server based software. Products ATTO products are sold directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), ODMs, White Box Systems Integrators as well as through ATTO authorized distributors and resellers. Products include: acceleration software, RAID Adapters, and host bus adapters (HBAs) 8Gb, 16Gb and 32Gb Fibre Channel, 12Gb and 6Gb SAS/SATA, and Network Interface Cards (NICs) 40GbE and 10GbE. NetApp is a customer of ATTO and has integrated the ATTO FibreBridge product line in the NetApp MetroCluster business continuity solution. Protocol conversion products, called storage controllers, convert one protocol to another while adding monitoring and management features, for example: Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA, iSCSI to SAS/SATA. Switches are also offered which provide 8, 16, 24, or 48 ports in 16Gb or 8Gb Fibre Channel to enable an end-to-end SAN solution when using Fibre Channel HBAs. References About ATTO at corporate site Computer