Microsoft settles with Alacritech
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Goliath settled with David on Wednesday, when Microsoft settled a patent infringement suit brought by Alacritech.
San Jose, Calif.-based Alacritech sells a line of TCP/IP network interface cards that circumvent sludgy network protocol processing to speed the delivery of data in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices.
Both Microsoft and networking giant Broadcom agreed to license the SLIC architecture used in the accelerators. Broadcom will incorporate it into its Broadcom NetXtreme II technology, to be used with Windows Server 2003.