Louie L. Next wk is Iband progress time. QLGCs partner in Iband ( plus they own some shares) is I banderacom...here is what they have been up to lately...
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Banderacom Demonstrates First InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter
First solution for connecting InfiniBand powered servers and Fibre Channel powered storage area networks
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ORLANDO, Florida - June 18, 2001 - InfiniBand Trade Association - Banderacom, a leading fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company today announced the storage and networking industry's first technology demonstration of an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter (TCA) prototype.
“This industry-first demonstration of an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter (TCA) complements our existing solutions for InfiniBand-to-Ethernet and InfiniBand-to-TCP/IP offload systems, reinforcing Banderacom's position as the leading provider of InfiniBand target silicon,” said Les Crudele, president and CEO of Banderacom. “Working with leading partners such as QLogic, Wind River Systems, Lane15 Software, and Intel, Banderacom continues to build on its success in delivering the features and functions that will power early-to-market InfiniBand equipment.”
QLogic announced in May that it chose Banderacom's IBandit chips to power QLogic's high performance InfiniBand SANblade connectivity solutions.
“Banderacom is clearly the leader in InfiniBand target channel adapter silicon,” said Rob Davis, vice president of advanced technology, QLogic Corporation, the first company to develop an InfiniBand switch. “Early demonstrations of InfiniBand connectivity, such as this collaboration on the first InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel solution, lay the foundation for rapid deployment of InfiniBand in storage and networking applications in 2002.”
“InfiniBand's early success will depend in part on its ability to work with complementary and competing technologies such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel,” said Gordon Haff, Research Director for High-End Architectures, Aberdeen Group. “Banderacom's InfiniBand to Fibre Channel target demonstration is therefore an important step in the company's development of InfiniBand technology.”
The prototype InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel TCA is built with Banderacom's high performance IBandit prototype chipset. It features InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel software developed by QLogic and was developed in less than 45 days using Banderacom's IBandit product development kit (PDK), which began shipping in February 2001.
The InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel system is part of a larger demonstration that highlights three key elements of InfiniBand data centers:
distributed storage
connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs
connectivity to Ethernet local area networks (LANs)
In the demonstration, hosted at the InfiniBand Trade Association conference in Orlando, a host server fulfills requests from clients on the Ethernet LAN by retrieving data stored remotely on a Fibre Channel SAN. The host server, Ethernet LAN and Fibre Channel SAN are all connected through an InfiniBand fabric utilizing Banderacom's IBandit-powered target channel adaptors (TCAs).
The demonstration is hosted on a single InfiniBand fabric made up of Intel and Banderacom host channel adapter (HCA) nodes, a 16 port QLogic InfiniBand switch and a variety of Target Channel Adaptor (TCA) nodes powered by Banderacom's IBandit prototype chipset. Each IBandit node contains a Lane15 Subnet Management Agent (SMA), while other nodes use SMAs from Intel Corporation. The entire subnet is managed by a Lane15 Fabric Manager and monitored by a graphical management interface both locally in the Banderacom booth and remotely from the Lane15 Software booth. A CATC InfiniBand Protocol Analyzer graphically demonstrates the InfiniBand traffic generated by the demonstration.
ABOUT INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE
InfiniBand architecture is an industry standards-based interconnection technology that dramatically increases scalability, reliability and flexibility of server and storage systems used in modern networks. InfiniBand architecture is expected to replace Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, SCSI and PCI as the technologies currently required to connect today's storage and server networks. InfiniBand architecture provides a universal interconnect fabric enabling new, lower cost, higher performance and more reliable networks that are not possible today.
ABOUT QLOGIC CORP.
QLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QLGC) is changing the way the world views Storage Area Networks (SANs), serving OEMs, VARs and system integrators with the only end-to-end SAN infrastructure in the industry. With over 15 years of enterprise storage experience, the company delivers a full range of Fibre Channel switches, PCI host bus adapters, controller silicon and management chips for systems and peripherals, as well as the QLogic Management Suite of SAN management software solutions. A member of the S&P 500 Index, QLogic was ranked fourth on Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies and number 22 on Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies. QLogic is integrated in over 200 OEM solutions, including: AMI, Compaq, Computer Associates, DataCore, Dell, EMC, FalconStor, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, INRANGE, Iwill, MTI Technology Corp., Quantum, Raidtec, Siemens, Sony, Sun, Unisys, VERITAS and XIOtech. For more information about QLogic and its products, contact QLogic Corp., 26600 Laguna Hills Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656; telephone: 800/662-4471 (sales); 949/389-6000 (corporate); fax: 949/389-6126; home page qlogic.com
Banderacom Demonstrates First TCP/IP Offload over InfiniBand
Technology Demonstration with Wind River Improves Computer and Network Efficiency by Dedicating CPU to Applications Rather than Data Transmission
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ORLANDO, Florida - June 18, 2001 - InfiniBand Trade Association - Banderacom, a leading fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company, and Wind River Systems (NASDAQ: WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices in the Internet age, today announced the computer industry's first demonstration of TCP/IP offload over an InfiniBand connection.
“This industry-first demonstration, powered by Banderacom's IBandit chip set, and Wind River Systems TCP/IP software solution, reinforces Banderacom's position as the leading provider of the silicon necessary to build high-performance InfiniBand targets,” said Les Crudele, president and CEO of Banderacom. “TCP/IP offload illustrates one of the major applications for InfiniBand to improve the performance of server, storage, and networking systems.”
Wind River announced in October 2000 that it would partner with Banderacom to develop the InfiniBand functionality for Wind River's widely deployed VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).
Banderacom Announces Three New InfiniBand Product Development Kits:
PDKs enable InfiniBand™ development for embedded PowerPC™, XScale™ and StrongARM™ processors
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ORLANDO, Florida - June 19, 2001 - InfiniBand Trade Association - Banderacom, a leading fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company, today announced three new InfiniBand product development kits (PDKs) with support for PowerPC, Intel XScale and Intel StrongARM embedded processors. The new PDKs join Banderacom's existing PDKs, for x86/Windows 2000 and x86/VxWorks embedded processors, which were introduced in February 2001.
Nice picture of architecture showing how the Q/Badera pieces go together.
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