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. 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, PAX.port 1200, and PAX.port 2500 The classifier chips were used in Network Switches and Load Balancers. External links Packet Description Language introduced Archived 1999 Packet Processing introduction Archived 2001 2nd round financing 2002 NPF names Misha Nossik Chairman Companies established in 1997 Defunct networking companies Fabless semiconductor companies Companies based in Ottawa Semiconductor companies of Canada