Something else announced, Force10 networkshas acquired a pretty cool little company; Meta Networks. For those that don’t know, Meta Networks makes a very cool IDS card that can do 10gig with minimal overhead to the host OS. At SC|05 they announced the purchase and gave a little talk regarding the product. Livio Ricciulli, the founder of Meta Networks was there to help with the product, which was used by SCinet to help secure the very high performance network. VERY cool stuff indeed. I like the idea of the programmable card (that can do a LOT of cool stuff) a little more than the way that Endace cards operate, although the endace 10gig cards are very nice as well.