Re Banderacom, is it a partner or is it coopetition? Looks like they spun their own 16 port Iband fabric solution? And found a customer in Infiniswitch....Hmmmm, If QLGC had helped I think they would have a joint announcement?
Will Banderacom get bought out by someone?
Banderacom Announces Industry's Most Versatile InfiniBand Switch Silicon Solution
Banderacom's First IBandit-Switch Family Device Delivers a 16-Port InfiniBand Switch-on-a-Chip Optimized for Mainstay Leaf-Switching Applications
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001-- Banderacom(tm), the leading fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company, today announced the first member of its IBandit(tm)-Switch family, the BDC42116, based on Banderacom's IBandit architecture.
The BDC42116 is an InfiniBand Trade Association(tm) standards compliant switch device designed to interconnect a broad variety of 1x (2.5 gigabit per second) and 4x (10 gigabit per second) InfiniBand servers and peripheral I/O units within small to very large datacenters. Banderacom's IBandit-Switch device will serve as the core element of InfiniBand leaf switches, the mainstay switches of next-generation datacenters.
``Banderacom's new IBandit-Switch product makes multi-tiered switching infrastructures practical, a necessity for InfiniBand deployment,'' said Les Crudele, president and CEO of Banderacom. ``Our customers will use this technology to build switches that enable InfiniBand to deliver on the promise of solving the bottleneck in the first 50-feet of the Internet.''
``To build an industry leading switch solution, you have to start with the best switch chip,'' said Don Zereski, president and CEO of InfiniSwitch Corporation, the market leader in developing InfiniBand switching products designed for the datacenter. ``After careful consideration, InfiniSwitch selected Banderacom to power our next generation of switching product because of Banderacom's expertise in developing InfiniBand silicon.''
``Banderacom has identified a unique opportunity in the InfiniBand switch market,'' said Vernon Turner, vice president for International Data Corporation. ``The new IBandit-Switch device enables manufacturers and end users to build a multi-tiered switching infrastructure supporting thousands of servers and end nodes. By leveraging the data center knowledge of high-end switch market and driving it to a wider infrastructure audience, Banderacom's offering is helping to open up the door for more InfiniBand-based solutions.''
Banderacom's BDC42116 is the industry's only single-chip, 16-port InfiniBand switch. It includes a broad variety of unique industry-first features such as a QoS Uplink Port that allows multiple virtual lanes to share a single uplink for maximum quality of service, flexible port configuration, high-performance, standards-compliant buffering and flow-control mechanisms.
For more information on Banderacom's new device, contact Banderacom sales at 512/302-0002, or visit www.banderacom.com.
BDC42116 IBandit-Switch Features Include:
16 InfiniBand Ports
Single-chip solution with integrated SerDes
1x and 4x link speeds: each port supports a 1x link, and any four ports can be combined to provide a 4x link
Programmable InfiniBand MTU with range of 256 to 2048 bytes
Hardware CRC check and generation
InfiniBand Link Layer Compliant MAC
1x mode and 4x mode capability
Multiple Virtual Lanes (VLs) supported
Hardware-based link flow control
InfiniBand compliant hardware based link flow control
Non-Blocking Wire Speed Transaction Switch
Supports cut-through and store and forward on all 16 ports
64 entry linear forwarding Multicast table
4096 entry linear forwarding Unicast table
Hardware enforced P_Key table per port
Support for mirroring
PCI Compliant Bus Interface
Management Interface for sending and receiving management packets
32-bit 3.3V PCI bus supporting 33 MHz in PCI 2.2 mode
Asynchronous PCI bus operation from 0 to 33 MHz
Multiple IBandit-Switch devices supported on a single PCI bus
IEEE 1149.1 Compliant JTAG Test Access Port
About InfiniBand
InfiniBand technology is a high-performance channel-based semiconductor architecture that provides increased scalability and reliability for servers and other Internet infrastructure equipment. Using a packet-based switching fabric, InfiniBand technology is expected to meet the need for faster, less congested and more reliable data transport through the Internet.
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