Solidum Systems

Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. It developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Some of their devices could be 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.^[1]

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,^[2] PAX.port 1200, and PAX.port 2500^[3]

The classifier chips were used in Network Switches^[4] 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^{[permanent dead link]}