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Intel Communication Streaming Architecture

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Intel's Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA) is a mechanism used in the Intel Hub Architecture to increase the bandwidth available between a network card and the CPU. It consists of connecting directly the network controller to the Memory Controller Hub (northbridge), instead of to the I/O Controller Hub (southbridge).