The Intel QuickAssist Adapter 8950 provides customers with a scalable, flexible and extendable way to offer QuickAssist crypto acceleration and Compression capabilities to their existing product lines. The Intel 8950 features the Intel® Communication Chipset 8955 controller supporting Intel QuickAssist Technology for improved cryptographic and compression performance. Intel® QuickAssist Technology provides hardware acceleration to assist with the performance demands of securing and routing Internet traffic and other workloads such as compression and wireless 3G/4G LTE algorithm offload, thereby reserving processor cycles for application and control processing.