Silicom Ltd. engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and support of connectivity solutions for a range of servers and server based systems in the North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers high-end server networking cards with and without bypass that are known as server adapters. Its server adapters are used in various applications, including security appliances, wide area network optimization appliances, load balancing and traffic management appliances, network-attached storage, video on demand servers, content delivery servers, Internet service providers/Web hosting, and high end computing. The company also offers intelligent and programmable cards, such as encryption acceleration cards and redirector cards; intelligent stand alone bypass units; 10 Gbps products with and without bypass; and server to appliance converters. In addition, it provides Direct NIC Access, plugin-over-PFring used as a zero-copy tool that enables Intel chips to send and receive packets in wire-speed; Lib Zero, a library that implements packet sharing in zero-copy; and Nano-Second Time-Stamping NIC that combines Intel's networking silicon and the company's time-stamping field programmable gate array. It markets its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers. Silicom Ltd. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Kfar Sava, Israel.