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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (48919)	7/25/2001 2:43:03 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: " Where's Intel?" Right here !! June 18, 2001 01:01 AM PST Developers road test Infiniband Dan Neel A WELL-HEELED networking technology called Infiniband will take major strides in the marketplace this week at the Infiniband Trade Association's Spring Developer's Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Infiniband is a switched fabric interconnect that packs considerable clout given the support of Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun, to name some of the larger companies behind the initiative. Developers expect it will hit the market early next year. Unlike networking solutions such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and SCSI, Infiniband can carry every form of high-speed network traffic, including message, storage, and chip-to-chip communication. It is expected to create an industrywide transition away from bus-based system architectures, according to Vernon Turner, a research analyst at IDC, in Framingham, Mass. "The time is just getting ripe for Infiniband. Server, storage, and switch vendors are independently getting ready to adopt Infiniband in their respective portfolios," Turner said. "Don't be surprised if you see server and database vendors be the first to come out with [Infiniband] products in early 2002." At the developer's conference, Infiniband component companies such as Banderacom, Infinicon, Lane 15, and Mellanox, will introduce products that make Infiniband's connection to servers and subsystems possible. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mellanox will unveil four Infiniband platforms, including a system to support small form-factor Infiniband connections, and a 10GBps copper connection to reduce heat and power consumption in rack-mounted servers. Mellanox officials believe less-expensive copper will serve as the Infiniband transport inside rack-mounted equipment, whereas pricier optic fiber connects Infiniband between the racks. Also at the conference, Banderacom and storage partner QLogic will demonstrate the first Infiniband-to-Fibre Channel host target adapter, as well as the first TCP/IP off-load via Infiniband. The next stop for Infiniband will be with server, storage, and other hardware vendors as they prepare to ship Infiniband-enabled products. Adoption is expected to be slow at first. "The market inflection point [for Infiniband] will be Q1 2003," Turner said. "At that point the Infiniband ecosystem should have enough silicon, enough interoperability testing, and enough management software to get traction from the IT industry." ABOUT INFOWORLD \| CONTACT US \| EMPLOYMENT \| PRIVACY