ALSO CALLED: Protocol Offload Engine, TCP Offloading Engine, TCP/IP Offloading, TCP Offload Engine, TCP IP Offload Engine, TCP Optimization, TCP/IP Acceleration, TOEs, TCP/IP Offload, TCP IP Optimization, Protocol Acceleration, TCP/IP Optimization, TCP Acceleration, and TOE
DEFINITION: Technology that is gaining popularity in high-speed Ethernet systems for the purpose of optimizing throughput. TOE solves this problem by removing the burden (offloading) from the microprocessor and I/O subsystem by moving TCP/IP processing from software, running on general purpose processors, to custom hardware.
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