, a leading playing card
manufacturer in Europe.
Design-A-Cards "WePrintEm" sell online for $28 a deck at
http://www.createplayingcards. For more information,
visit http://www. "As bandwidth speeds and
larger data sizes continue to outpace processors, Alacritech's newest
Accelerators with SLIC Technology transparently accelerate network
data delivery. Alacritech's SLIC
Technology is a Data Path Offload architecture that is the first fully
compatible and scalable architecture to offload network protocol
processing including TCP/IP, RDMA and iSCSI from host software to
silicon.

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With the Design-A-Card "WePrintEm" online tool, anyone can design their
own photo playing cards by uploading their own image, selecting a border,
adding text, and even choosing the face or style of cards they want (like
canasta, pinochle, jumbo index, poker, etc. The options are endless
while all of this is done LIVE, via the Internet. Games, Copag(R), KEM(R) and
Congress(R).
Alacritech Accelerators are the only cards that can offload and
accelerate both networking and storage traffic simultaneously, and are
the only TNICs that enable failover capabilities. The Alacritech
Accelerators enable us to cost-effectively increase the capacity of
our existing servers, while maximizing our system performance and
availability -- the result is our customers gain a much better user
experience and are highly productive.

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pointing out "all chips are not created equal. They feature a centered
logo and authentic casino stripes molded into the chips.

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price of $1,449. For
more information, please visit http://www.

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If poker is Dad's passion, trade up his old plastic chips and dog-eared
cards for the Bicycle Premium Masters Poker Set from U. They have a unique
"rough" feel that allows for easy stacking and shuffling.
"Home poker games are catching on like wildfire across the country, and
players everywhere are seeking to replicate the kind of poker excitement they
see on television.

Online Design-A-Card Allows Photo to Be Turned Into Poker Playing Cards

Since its inception in 2000, Newt's Playing Cards
(http://www.com
http://www.S.

Alacritech Inc.

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S. The
full report is available at:
http://www.
The eight new TNICs include:

Copper Model Fiber Model Ports Bus
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SEN2001XT SEN2001XF 1 PCI-X
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SEN2002XT SEN2002XF 2 PCI-X
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SEN2102ET SEN2102EF 2 PCI Express
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SEN2104ET SEN2104EF 4 PCI Express
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Unique Features and Benefits

Accelerated data delivery for all TCP traffic with an
ASIC-based TOE

Seamless integration with the Microsoft iSCSI Software
Initiator

Only TNICs to offer hardware acceleration for the Microsoft
iSCSI Software Initiator

Industry standard Ethernet link aggregation and failover
either within, or across, cards

Highest performance and only TNICs available for Windows(R) -
wire -speed performance with standard 1500 byte Ethernet frames
or 9000 byte jumbo frames

First and only dual-port, quad-port TNICs with support for
PCI-X and PCI Express

Support for PXE and iSCSI boot

Broad Industry Compatibility

Alacritech maintains its commitment to interoperability and works
with industry-leading storage hardware vendors to ensure seamless
compatibility for customers deploying joint solutions.alacritech. For more
information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the
company's Web site at www.

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Other chips often
have flat edges and slick finishes that make for difficult shuffling or hand
control. The Bicycle Premium Masters Poker Set , which is being introduced
at Father's Day, will be in stores year round. USPC is also the largest
supplier of premium playing cards to casinos worldwide.newtscards.com

This release was issued through eReleases(TM). With unequaled
performance and functionality, the Alacritech SEN2000 Accelerator line
provides Windows-based networked applications with enterprise class
scalability , availability and the highest performance possible in data
intensive environments.

About Alacritech SLIC Technology(R)

Alacritech was the first to envision a network protocol processing
architecture that bypasses Moore's Law and the limitations of
processors to enable scalable, networked systems . Production evaluation
units of the PCI-X models are immediately available through the
Alacritech Product Evaluation Program at Alacritech's e-store.

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Dad may beat his opponents, but you can't beat the price or the value of
this handsome set, which retails for approximately $59 at Wal-Mart and
Walgreen's. "Now Newt's has once again taken
the 'art' of cards even further by allowing you to create your own custom deck
online - in a fraction of the time! As an added bonus you can even use some of
my artwork as the card face or to add your own text to on the card back. The first deck , WILD!, was released 2 years ago; a second,
called Busy Bears, is available as one of the card faces that can be chosen
when you design your own deck. This month, we mark five years of shipping TOE
technology proven to extend the performance and scalability of today's
Windows-based servers.

As the first to envision a network
protocol processing architecture that enables systems to scale to
address ever increasing data and network speeds, Alacritech developed
and patented the SLIC Technology(R) architecture.alacritech.

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Playing Card Company
(USPC), and give his poker night the aura of an authentic casino tournament. Poker is
believed to have popularized by soldiers during the Civil War. USPC's International
holdings include Naipes Heraclio Fournier, S. "Now to be able to offer a tool that allows the
customer to design their own cards is not only exciting for us, but a
monumental moment in the world of personalization. All
eight TNICs are based on the company 's fourth-generation programmable
STA2000 Internet Protocol Processor (IPP) ASIC, the industry's first
wire-speed, hardware-based dual-port TCP/IP offload engine (TOE). "After installing the new dual -port
Alacritech SEN2002 Accelerators, our transaction speed has improved by
100%, our file copying is 20-fold faster, and we've significantly
reduced the backup times of our stored files. The
Alacritech SEN2000 Accelerator product line consists of eight models
that range between one and four ports and are available in copper or
fiber versions, with support for PCI-X or PCI Express bus standards.

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CINCINNATI, Barbecue tools are boring.
It will be hard for him to keep his poker face when you surprise him with this
handsome black lacquered wood "royal flush" case.com
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New Multi-port SEN2000 Line with PCI-X and PCI Express Support
Enables Enterprise Class Scalability and Availability for
Networked Applications

Alacritech (R) Inc. The TNICs support the latest bus standards,
including PCI-X and PCI Express, and have been independently tested
and proven to enable dual-processor servers to deliver quad-processor
file server performance simply by adding Alacritech Accelerators.

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S." The poker chips created for
this set feature rounded edges for better handling.
"I've been designing playing cards for over 15 years now and it takes me a
LONG time to create artwork for a deck of cards," says playing card artist
Peter Wood (http://www.
"Alacritech SEN2000 Accelerators provide customers with our fourth
generation of TCP offload technology, solving server demands for
higher connectivity and scalable networking performance," said Joe
Gervais, director, Marketing, Alacritech Inc."
Alacritech's patented SLIC Technology(R) is specifically designed
to optimize the TCP/IP stack to efficiently address high volume data
growth and increasing bandwidth rates without requiring any
modification to applications ., Network Appliance(TM),
SANRAD and Promise(R) Technology, Inc. All Alacritech products offer industry -standard failover
and link aggregation.com

About Alacritech(R) Inc.

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High
quality heavy-weight clay chips like those in the Bicycle Premium Masters
Poker Set are preferred by poker players worldwide .
"The Bicycle Premium Masters Poker Set was developed to bring a new
element of fun and authenticity to America's favorite card game," said Scott
Kling, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for U.
This will allow for continued benefits with scaling requirements in
the future. is the world's leading supplier of standards-based
scalable networking solutions that enable the highest performance and
efficiency in networked systems.

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USPC invites poker enthusiasts to "Feel and Know the Difference " . US
Playing Card's decks have been the choice of poker players since 1880 and the
Bicycle brand was introduced in 1885., the innovator of data acceleration solutions
that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked
systems, today announced its new Alacritech SEN2000 Accelerator line
of multi-port, Gigabit Ethernet TCP/IP Offload Engine Network
Interface Cards (TNICs). By
freeing the CPU, systems can focus on faster and more efficient data
delivery to and from applications than is possible with server
platforms today. TNICs based on SLIC Technology are deployed in tens
of thousands of systems worldwide including Networked-Attached Storage
(NAS) applications, video /imaging clients and media servers, and
enterprise class servers.

Availability

The Alacritech SEN2000 family of TNICs support Windows Server
2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000 and are now available in PCI-X
models with either copper or fiber interfaces through Alacritech's
channel partners.

suggested list price of $999 and the SEN2002XT
with two 10/100/1000 twisted pair interfaces has a U.

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Ties are
tired. This designer takes the playing card world to the
"next level.co. Over the years Newt's has transformed into the
playing card portal on the Internet offering anything from card blogs, to a
card search engine.e-quiver.com/clients/reports/alacritech
"Dealing with I/O processing issues as demand for data and
bandwidth consume resources is a challenging problem as we move toward
10 Gigabit Ethernet," said Randy Kerns, senior partner, Evaluator
Group. in the United States.

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Inside, he will find everything he needs to turn poker night into a real
experience: 300 hefty 8-gram professional quality clay-filled chips that offer
the distinctive click heard in top casinos and card rooms around the world,
two decks of premium Bicycle brand cards that stand ready to "shuffle up and
deal," and a Texas Hold'em Rules Sheet for any newcomers to the table. Playing Card Company,
the world's leader in playing cards for more than 100 years and the
manufacturer of the best-selling Bicycle and Bee brand cards.A.
All Alacritech Accelerator products are based on SLIC Technology and
include Gigabit Ethernet TNIC products, iSCSI controller products and
IPP ASICs. Alacritech's
complete line of Accelerators, based on this architecture, optimize
data delivery in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage
devices.

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The Bicycle chips yield a rich quality clicking sound, unlike many
others on the market that give off a "pinging" sound when stacked. This brings the creative
side back into the gift giving world allowing users to be the actual designer
of the playing cards," he explains.com)."

New Alacritech SEN2000 TNIC Line

The Alacritech SEN2000 Accelerator product line is the industry's
most comprehensive family of TNICs, and joins the Alacritech 1000x1
Accelerator as the only TNICs for Windows-based systems.

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The right equipment is essential," said Kling. Newt's is a division of E-Quiver, Inc.
"With over ten million transactions a month, we needed to ensure
maximum application performance, speedy transaction processing, and
rapid response times for customers," said Andrew Yashchuk, director,
Development, Nebo Systems , Inc. The SEN2001XT with a 10/100/1000 twisted pair
interface has a U.S. The PCI Express dual- and quad-port models will be
available through channel partners in 90 days.

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Today, with poker's popularity is at
its peak thanks to televised poker shows, Bicycle cards still stand as the
choice of American card players.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif. Alacritech's
standards -based SEN2000 TNIC line has achieved interoperability
qualification with the following solution providers: Cisco(R) Systems,
FalconStor Software, Inc., HP, McDATA(R) Corp. with others currently in
progress .

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createplayingcards.

ABOUT NEWT'S PLAYING CARDS
Established in 2000 as Newton's Novelties, Newt's began exclusively
selling playing cards in 2002.

CONTACT

James Esteph
Newt's Playing Cards
614-834-9350
service@newtscards.ereleases . VeriTest's comprehensive testing
confirmed the Alacritech Accelerators deliver quad-processor file
server performance with a TNIC-equipped dual-processor system.

Various card games which require a special pack of cards often promoted and sold by a particular manufacturer.

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com) has been at the forefront of the playing card
craze that has swept across the United States and the world due to the
popularity of card games like Texas Hold 'Em Poker and collectibles like the
Iraqi Most Wanted deck.hugobia ."
Along with allowing folks to design their own playing cards, Newt's offers
major brands like Bicycle(R), Piatnik(R), U. SLIC Technology, the basis of industry-accepted TOE
solutions, ships in storage and server products worldwide.

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dedicated to family-friendly playing cards now offers an online
"designer" that allows anyone to create their own card back on a deck of
poker-sized playing cards , then have as little as one deck at a time
professionally printed.). By efficiently eliminating system and network bottlenecks and
maximizing data movement through Ethernet-based networks, SLIC
Technology significantly increases system, application and network
performance and enables scalable networking to 10 Gigabit and beyond.

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Put a Smile on Dad's (Poker) Face: Bicycle Premium Masters Poker Set is What He Really Wants for Father's Day

About US Playing Card Company
Founded in 1876 , The United States Playing Card Company ("USPC") is the
world's largest manufacturer and distributor of playing cards and a leader in
the marketing of poker chips and sets, collectible tins, puzzles , and card
accessories for the North American retail market. USPC is a division of Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH).newtscards.

Alacritech Significantly Expands Industry's Leading TCP Accelerator Line Adds Eight New High Performance TNICs for Data Intensive Environments

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Proven, Unsurpassed Performance in Data Intensive Environments

Alacritech commissioned VeriTest, the testing division of
Lionbridge (Nasdaq:LIOX), to test its new dual-port SEN2002 in
comparison to standard NIC products. "Alacritech set out many years ago to solve this problem and
today its Data Path Offload architecture provides advantages in
offloading the data handling for current and next generation servers.com

Alacritech , the Alacritech logo, SLIC Technology, SLIC Technology
logo and Accelerating Data Delivery are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of Alacritech, Inc.

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This Father's Day, chips are hip and all things poker dominate the
most wanted list. USPC brands include
Bee (R), Bicycle (R), Hoyle (R), and Aviator (R).
"Over the past couple of years we have sold thousands of decks of
customized playing cards, one deck at a time," says founder and playing card
collector James Esteph.S.com.veritest .

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It became the card game of riverboat gamblers and the Old West. Newt's offers its own line of cards that are called Seek-N-Find
playing cards, too.com.

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CANAL WINCHESTER, Ohio, The first store in the
U.uk).
(http://www. SLIC Technology significantly improves
application response times with efficient protocol processing. Alacritech
is a privately held company based in San Jose , California. Other marks
belong to their respective owners.