Joe, Can't wait for Douglas to give us a first hand account of I/O......
Here are some things that are pieces to the big puzzle, but I'm not sure where they go........
Metromedia Fiber Network Acquires M.I.B.H. Inc.; Deployment of Global Optical IP Network Accelerates, Providing Scaleable Multi-Gigabit Internet Connectivity
Business Wire - January 19, 2000 07:18
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000--Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: MFNX), the leader in deployment of optical networking and Internet infrastructure within key metropolitan areas worldwide, has acquired M.I.B.H. Inc., a network outsourcing provider offering full-service management of business Internet connectivity solutions, for approximately $51 million in cash and Metromedia Fiber Network Class A Common Stock. The acquisition will enable Metromedia Fiber Network to accelerate the timeline for design and deployment of its global optical IP network. Under the terms of the agreement, MIBH will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network. All of MIBH's professional employees, including its President, Paul Vixie, and its Chief Technology Officer, Stephen Stuart, will join Metromedia Fiber Network.
"The acquisition of MIBH, and the addition of Paul Vixie and Stephen Stuart to the management team, coupled with our acquisition last year of AboveNet Communications, has given Metromedia Fiber Network industry-leading IP expertise," said Nick Tanzi, President of Metromedia Fiber Network. "We have accelerated deployment of the industry's first end-to-end global optical IP network to meet the growing demand for high-capacity bandwidth for mission-critical and broadband applications. This fully optical network will allow us, for example, to deliver business content in real time from an office in New York to one in San Jose and another in London, or to deliver content-rich multimedia to millions of users simultaneously around the world."
Mr. Vixie will become the Senior Vice President for Network Services for Metromedia Fiber Network and AboveNet and Chief Technology Officer for PAIX, a subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network. He is one of the founders of Internet Software Consortium (ISC) and is known for ISC's work with BIND, the Domain Name Server (DNS) software that is at the core of the Internet and has been in use since its inception. Mr. Vixie is a founder of PAIX and has served as its consulting chief technology officer since PAIX's acquisition by AboveNet and Metromedia Fiber Network in 1999. Mr. Vixie will report directly to Dave Rand, Metromedia Fiber Network's Chief Technology Officer.
Mr. Stuart will become the Vice President of Internet Architecture for Metromedia Fiber Network and AboveNet. He spent over 12 years as a researcher for Digital Equipment Corporation where he was a founder of PAIX with Mr. Vixie. Mr. Stuart has been actively involved in many of the technologies and organizations that have become integral to the Internet, including IPv6, wireless networking, multicasting and NANOG (North American Network Operators Group). Mr. Stuart will report directly to Mr. Vixie.
The employees of MIBH are recognized as experts in the field of IP networking. Several members of the MIBH team have more than twenty years of experience building networks, and most of the staff has been involved in the design and deployment of the Internet for more than 10 years. MIBH staff members have also aided in the development of some of the leading networks in use today, including those of Sprint, UUNET and Verio. Additional members of the MIBH staff who will be joining AboveNet include Tom Patterson, Joseph Malcolm, Andrew Partan, Brett Watson, David Hankins, Brad Horak and Hank Kilmer.
"Joining MFN will allow us to participate in the creation of one of the most exciting networks of the future," Mr. Vixie said. "AboveNet already has a reputation for delivering the best network performance and reliability on the Internet. We are privileged to be a part of this team and look forward to the challenge of designing and deploying the first global, end-to-end optical IP network."
About Metromedia Fiber Network
Metromedia Fiber Network, the leading provider of optical networking and Internet infrastructure, is revolutionizing the fiber optic industry. By offering virtually unlimited, unmetered bandwidth at a fixed cost within key metropolitan areas, the Company is eliminating the bandwidth barrier and redefining the way broadband capacity is sold. Metromedia Fiber Network is extending metropolitan optical networking infrastructure to the end user in strategic top-tier markets, enabling its customers to implement the latest data, video, Internet and multimedia applications. In addition to its current expansion in 51 cities in North America, Metromedia Fiber Network is establishing an international presence with planned fiber optic network builds in 16 cities throughout Europe.
Together with its subsidiaries, AboveNet Communications, Inc., a leading provider of co-location and Internet connectivity solutions, and PAIX.net, Inc., the leading neutral Internet Exchange, Metromedia Fiber Network is unleashing the full potential of the Internet. The combined company facilitates the explosive growth of e-commerce and advanced Internet applications by delivering secure, reliable and scalable optical networks and IP services to Internet content and service providers, carriers and enterprise users worldwide. For more information about Metromedia Fiber Network, please visit the company's Web site at www.mmfn.com.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause or contribute to such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, and various other factors beyond the Company's control. This also includes such factors as described from time to time in the SEC reports filed by Metromedia Fiber Network, including the most recently filed Forms 10-K, 10-Q and S-4.
The ASP Exodus that bought out Keylabs last wk went up about $15/share yesterday........and are opening bigger pipes......
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HItachi.........
Hitachi Data Systems and Constellar expect the porting agreement to result in the first-ever implementation of an EAI solution hosted on an OS/390-based platform, thereby allowing Constellar to leverage its technology in the S/390 market.
``Mainframes are still very much at the heart of the corporate data universe,' said David Spenhoff, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Constellar. ``With the huge projected growth of e-business, coupled with new, data-intensive applications, leading analyst firms are predicting that installed mainframe MIPS will increase by as much as 400 percent over the next few years. In essence, mainframes will be the only way to provide the scalability and availability that enterprises will require to facilitate the extreme levels of Web traffic and e-transaction processing that lie ahead.
``Furthermore, we are receiving a growing number of requests from CIOs, system architects, and IT managers to deliver our data transformation solutions to the mainframe market, and our partnership with Hitachi Data Systems will enable us to do that. The marriage of Constellar technology with the superiority of Hitachi's industry-leading mainframes will provide an incredible edge for our e-customers.'
I take this to suggest serious interest in director FC switches?
Some I/O news........
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Intel Demonstrates LSI Logic SCSI in I/O Building Blocks Demo at Server I/O Conference
Symbios(R) SYM53C896 included in Intel's I/O building block reference design demonstration
MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI - news), an industry leader of high performance I/O solutions, today announced that it will provide the SCSI interface for Intel Corporation's I/O building block demonstration at the Server I/O conference in Monterey, California. Utilizing the proven architecture of LSI Logic's Symbios© SYM53C896 Ultra2 SCSI controller, the demonstration will showcase the ability for designers to use a reference design to build systems that dramatically increase the I/O scalability of Intel architecture platforms for entry and mid-range servers.
``Today's demonstration of our Intel Integrated RAID design kit validates Intel's and LSI Logic's investment in intelligent building block technology,' said Wendy Vittori, general manager of Intel's I/O Products Division. ``LSI Logic's SCSI products and intelligent architected Hardware Driver Module (HDM), combined with Intel's RAID building blocks, enable OEM's to integrate high performance RAID adapters and RAID on the motherboard designs, allowing for faster validation across network operating system platforms.'
``LSI Logic's SYM53C896 Ultra2 SCSI controllers, along with our intelligent SCSI firmware, delivers true multi-function PCI dual-channel SCSI performance,' said Bill Wuertz, vice president and general manager, LSI Logic Storage Components Division. ``LSI Logic's intelligent firmware architecture allows the SYM53C896 and our other family of I/O products (including Ultra160, Ultra320, 1G Fibre, 2Gig Fibre, and InfiniBand) to fit within Intel's intelligent I/O building blocks approach.'
LSI Logic's Ultra2 controllers also feature SCSI Interrupt Steering Logic (SISL). This technology allows RAID controllers to control LSI Logic SCSI controllers on the motherboard, giving OEM's more flexibility in their product offerings. For designs requiring the higher performance capabilities of Ultra160 SCSI, LSI Logic also offers the SYM53C1010. This part also features SISL and is pin compatible with the SYM53C896, which allows designers an option to migrate to Ultra160 with minimal risk as well as offering them another option for their products. The SYM53C1010 is fully compliant with the Ultra 160 initiative and offers added features such as SureLINK(TM) Domain Validation and Asynchronous Information Protection (AIP) for robust data protection at Ultra 160 transfer speeds.
``Intel's Intelligent I/O building block announcement re-affirms the market's direction toward increasing levels of I/O sophistication and aligns well with LSI Logic's strategic direction. Intel and LSI Logic are both committed to enable the high-performance storage market with proven intelligent I/O solutions,' said Wuertz.
The LSI Logic SCSI products are included in Intel's SMUZZR integrated RAID design kit and KMU21 RAID controllers.
About LSI Logic's Storage Components Division
LSI Logic Corporation's Storage Components Division is a leading supplier of high-performance I/O solutions for servers, workstations, desktops, storage subsystems and SANs. LSI Logic's Symbios-branded integrated circuits, host adapters, expanders and software use leading-edge I/O technology. Our proven, reliable products enable customers to meet market demands by lowering system costs and accelerating time to market. To find out more, please visit our web site at www.lsilogic.com/products/io_standard/index.html.
About LSI Logic
LSI Logic Corporation, is a leading supplier of communications chips for broadband, data networking, wireless and set-
Widriver and INTC
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Wind River, Intel Validate Intelligent I/O Architecture With Real Time OS for I20 and Intel Integrated RAID Building Blocks
Tornado for Intelligent I/O, IxWorks IRTOS Provide Unique Platform for Development of Complex I/O Subsystems
ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000-- Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - news), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced that, through a cooperative effort, the new Intel Integrated RAID development kits, which support Intel's i960© RN and RM second-generation intelligent I/O processors, utilize Wind River's Tornado(TM) for Intelligent I/O (I2O) development environment.
The Tornado for Intelligent I/O platform includes the only commercially available I2O real time operating system (IRTOS), Wind River's IxWorks© IRTOS. (See separate Intel Integrated RAID development kits' availability press release issued today.)
Wendy Vittori, general manager, Intel I/O Product Division, noted, ``Wind River has played an integral role in our RAID building block development efforts. Their knowledge and implementation of the I2O software architecture was key in our ability to successfully develop and deploy our Integrated RAID building blocks.'
``This implementation validates the I2O architecture as a server quality solution,' stated David Fraser, vice president and general manager of Wind River's networking business unit. ``Integrated RAID running on the IxWorks IRTOS delivers on the promise of I2O to provide robust, intelligent off-loading of a variety of complex operations such as RAID, from the host CPU onto intelligent I/O subsystems. In addition, Intel's use of our I2O solution demonstrates that the IxWorks IRTOS can be readily integrated into a variety of server offload products for both server appliance and server networking applications.'
``Wind River has been an integral part of this development effort with Intel from the onset and we're very excited to see all our mutual efforts come to fruition,' said Jerry Fiddler, co-founder and chairman of Wind River Systems. ``RAID has always been one of the primary target market applications for I2O. Now, through close, long-term cooperation, that goal is a reality. With the Wind River and ISI merger approaching completion, the combined company will be able to bring even more resources to bear on helping create targeted, innovative solutions like Integrated RAID.'
Wind River provided Intel with the IxWorks IRTOS, which supports Intel's second generation of intelligent I/O processors, the i960© RN and RM, and includes critical building blocks necessary for developing the Intel Integrated RAID solution. In addition, Wind River provided the associated development tools that made the integration of the building blocks possible. By using Wind River's Tornado for Intelligent I/O solution, Intel was able to simultaneously deliver support for Integrated RAID on three different networking operating systems. Other project-specific implementations included changing the SCSI adapter provider by simply plugging in a new driver binary; and providing the same management ``look and feel' across all the NOSs by using a browser through the use of the I2O HTML configuration provided in the IxWorks IRTOS.
Intel's Integrated RAID Solution
Intel Corporation's Integrated RAID building blocks consist of high-performance I/O processors, RAID controller reference designs, RAID controllers and an HTML based RAID application for managing RAID functions. Network OS (NOS) support is provided for Microsoft NT, Novell NetWare, and SCO Unixware operating systems. Intel provides the Integrated RAID solutions in two formats--a dual channel card as a reference design for OEMs to develop their own RAID products as well as a single channel card that is being marketed to OEMs for quick time to market. The software stack includes software that resides on the host CPU for the management of the RAID arrays, as well as drivers running under Wind River's IxWorks IRTOS on an i960Rx I/O co-processor.
Tornado for Intelligent I/O, Version 1.1
The Tornado for Intelligent I/O development environment, version 1.1, which includes the IxWorks IRTOS, is compliant with revision 1.5 of the I2O specification and includes peer-to-peer support. The Tornado for Intelligent I/O development environment offers a complete, configurable package including the API, operating system, guaranteed hardware integration, compilers, debuggers, shell, incremental loader for iterative testing, and access to state-of-the-art development tools.
The IxWorks IRTOS is a light-weight, scalable and resource-efficient real-time operating system based on Wind River's highly successful Wind© kernel. The IxWorks IRTOS provides a single plug-in framework for communication with all I2O drivers. Designers no longer have to provide an interface directly to the network operating system. They simply plug the appropriate information into the pre-designed I2O driver model and the IxWorks IRTOS translates it into I2O message protocols. Because the IxWorks IRTOS implements the I2O core API, any device driver written according to the I2O standard will run on it. I2O device drivers are designed to be reusable and processor-independent. Porting an I2O driver to another processor platform can be as easy as recompiling the C-language driver.
The INTC intiative looks to be to be far ranging......but Doug, we need you to help put the pieces all together.
Thanks in advance.
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