Joe, Here is some Iband news from Agilent. They want to make a switch too....
Agilent Technologies Outlines Broad Support Plans for InfiniBand Architecture
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - news) today outlined plans to offer comprehensive support for the InfiniBand common input/output (I/O) architecture.
Agilent will provide a range of semiconductor and board solutions in support of the standard, including router and switch products, serializer/deserializer (SerDes) ICs, and fiber-optic components. The company also intends to offer test solutions at both the protocol and physical layer levels. Agilent plans to introduce its first products for InfiniBand in 2001.
InfiniBand is a channel-based, switched fabric architecture that provides a scalable performance range of 500MB/s to 6GB/s per link, meeting the needs from entry level to high-end enterprise systems. The standard is being driven by industry leaders Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems
``Agilent can provide a very broad level of support for the InfiniBand architecture because of our powerful combination of design, manufacturing and test capabilities in the communications area,' said Bill Sullivan, senior vice president and general manager of Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group. ``We view this as an important, emerging standard and we intend to take a leadership position in providing multiple solutions designed to improve time to market for customers implementing the standard.'
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - news) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign itself into two fully independent companies. With 42,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent, a subsidiary of HP, had net revenues of more than $8.3 billion in fiscal year 1999.
Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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