The Alacritech Accelerator is a TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) Network Interface Card (TNIC). TNICs from Alacritech accelerate data delivery to enable the fastest, most efficient Windows-based servers today. TNICs from Alacritech offload and process all TCP-based traffic including E-mail, web, file serving, file transfer, backup, and iSCSI storage. By offloading all network protocol processing, Windows-based networked applications run significantly faster and more efficiently. Integrating an Alacritech Accelerator into a Windows-based server provides transparent acceleration for all networked applications. File servers equipped with TNICs from Alacritech frequently exceed the performance of NIC-based systems with double the number of processors.