NIC Maker Accelerates Warcraft, Expands Channel Program

NIC Maker Accelerates Warcraft, Expands Channel Program

Written By
Jessica Davis
Jessica Davis
May 20, 2009
1 minute read
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With close to 12 million subscribers to the online game “World of Warcraft,” there are plenty of users out there clamoring for top-performing gaming computers that don’t fall victim to excessive network latency.
Enter Bigfoot Networks. This 3-year-old company wants to do for online gaming what graphics card makers such as Nvidia and ATI (now a division of AMD) did for gaming graphics.
Bigfoot offers a co-processor-the Killer NIC (network interface card) that optimizes networking performance on a PC by offloading networking functions such as Winsock processing from the main CPU. The result is an accelerated networking experience for network-intensive PC applications such as online games and voice over IP (VOIP).
Now Bigfoot is expanding its distribution of the card beyond the OEM market by licensing the technology to add-on board providers. Early partners include Evga, says Michael Howse, CEO of Bigfoot Networks.

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Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis has been a professional writer since 2005. She has worked in various media outlets, writing for a bricklaying trade publication, several research companies and her favorite: a major entertainment company in Washington where…

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