SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
6-K
REPORT
OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT
TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF
THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the month of February, 2010
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SILICOM LTD.
(Translation
of Registrant's name into English)
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8
Hanagar St., P.O.Box 2164, Kfar-Sava 44425, Israel
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
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registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form
40-F:
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This
report on Form 6-K is incorporated by reference into the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form F-3, Registration Statement No. 333-143565. This
report on Form 6-K is also incorporated by reference into all other effective
registration statements filed by the Registrant under the Securities Act of
1933.
Signature
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has
duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
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SILICOM Ltd.
(Registrant)
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By:
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/s/ Eran Gilad | |
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Dated: February
22nd,
2010
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SILICOM’s
10Gbps EXTERNAL INTELLIGENT BYPASS SWITCH (IBS)
SELECTED
BY MAJOR APPLICATION DELIVERY SOLUTION COMPANY
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Receipt
of Multiple Orders & Forecast Indicate The IBS Potential to Become an
Important New Addition to Silicom’s Successful Family of BYPASS
Products -
KFAR SAVA, Israel— February 22,
2010--Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: SILC) today announced that it has
received a series of orders from a leading application delivery company for its
cutting-edge 10Gbps external Intelligent Bypass Switch (IBS) and that the
customer has also provided Silicom with a forecast indicating the potential for
a flow of repeat orders.
The
customer selected the Silicom external IBS after a thorough evaluation of the
marketplace, which confirmed that the Silicom product offers an optimum mix of
innovative features backed by full customization options and support, all at a
reasonable price.
“We are
very excited that such a prestigious customer has selected our innovative 10Gbps
IBS product, especially since it has already given us several orders and a
forecast for more,” commented Shaike Orbach, Silicom’s President and CEO. “We
believe that this success will lead to widespread interest and sales for
additional external BYPASS products, and will therefore help us to further grow
our revenues and expand our customer base. As such, the IBS could become a
strategic complement to our market leading internal BYPASS solutions, helping us
to extend Silicom’s reputation as the industry’s trusted one-stop-shop for
innovative, top-performing Bypass solutions.”
Like all
of Silicom’s Bypass solutions, the Intelligent Bypass switch (IBS) is used to
protect and maintain network integrity at times of in-line appliances failures.
As an intelligent solution, the IBS self generates a “heartbeat” with which it
is able to relieve the in-line application from the task of sensing a failure
and initiating the Bypass process, thereby facilitating an exceedingly simple
integration of the external BYPASS into the network. The IBS can also
provide Silicom’s Redirector capabilities, increasing the range of applications
for which the IBS can be used.
Mr.
Orbach concluded, “The IBS is just one of our recent product innovations, the
latest fruit of our continuous investment in innovative R&D. These efforts
have expanded our product portfolio with many new “standard” products as well as
our unique Redirector and SETAC. Each of these products expands our addressable
markets, adding to our ability to continuously generate growth.”
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About
Silicom
Silicom
Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance server/appliances
networking solutions. The Company's flagship products include a variety of
multi-port Gigabit Ethernet, copper and fiber-optic, server adapters and
innovative BYPASS adapters designed to increase throughput and availability of
server-based systems, WAN Optimization and security appliances and other
mission-critical gateway applications. For more information, please visit www.silicom.co.il.
Statements
in this press release which are not historical data are forward-looking
statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, or other
factors not under the Company's control, which may cause actual results,
performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from the
results, performance, or other expectations implied by these forward-looking
statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, those detailed in the
Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
Company disclaims any duty to update such statements.
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Company
Contact:
Eran
Gilad, CFO
Silicom
Ltd.
Tel:
+972-9-764-4555
E-mail:
erang@silicom.co.il
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Investor
relations contact:
Kenny
Green / Ehud Helft
CCG
Israel Investor Relations
Tel:
+1 646 201 9246
E-mail : silicom@ccgisrael.com
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