Intel QuickAssist Adapter 8960 - Cryptographic Accelerator

hi guys so today's video is about this card right here and you might be wondering well what is that thing right so it's just this card with a massive heatsink and there's really not very much product labeling so it's kind of a nondescript card but what this is is a intel quick assist technology hardware accelerator card often times called qat alright so intel developed this technology to help servers and other applications offload crypto functions and compression decompression type of algorithms alright so there are also different grades of cards this one in particular is the 8950 and it's kind of the one kind of in the middle ground there's a slower one that's the 89 25 and then there are faster ones that are like the 8960 and 89 70 so why am i interested in this card you might ask we don't really talk on this channel much about like VPN acceleration or SSL acceleration and you know if