3Com to Develop InfiniBand Products Based On IBM Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today announced the companies would work together to integrate IBM's InfiniBand(TM) chip technology -- known as InfiniBlue -- into future networking solutions offered by 3Com. 3Com intends to market InfiniBand connectivity products that will allow the next generation of InfiniBand-enabled servers and existing PCI/PCI-X-based servers to seamlessly connect to an InfiniBand network. InfiniBand is a new high-speed common I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output standard defined by leading companies in the industry. It utilizes channel-based switch fabric architecture with scaleable performance from 500 Megabytes per second (unit) megabytes per second - (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576). to 6 Gigabytes per second per link. InfiniBand will replace PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. bus-based technology, dramatically improving performance, reliability and availability of next generation servers. This helps customers reduce the total cost of ownership of data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a and networking equipment. "3Com and IBM bring complementary strengths to the InfiniBand networking frontier," said Paul Rudnick, vice president and general manager, desktop and server division, Business Connectivity Company, 3Com Corporation. "InfiniBand-based networking architecture and products hold the potential to dramatically eclipse today's server performance, much like Pentium processors and PCI technology surpassed Minicomputers a decade ago." "IBM's leading-edge 4X InfiniBand technology will help customers realize the true potential of the InfiniBand architecture through products that incorporate high integration, flexibility and functionality," said Bruce Beers, vice president, Server Business Line, IBM Microelectronics. "3Com is an ideal company to develop and bring to market a host of end-to-end InfiniBand-based products that will help meet the wide-range needs of the ever growing demands of network connectivity." About 3Com Corporation 3Com simplifies how people connect to information and services through easy-to use connectivity products and solutions for people and businesses. The company also provides access infrastructures and IP services platforms for network service providers. For further information, visit www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox. About IBM Microelectronics IBM Microelectronics is a key contributor to IBM's role as the world's premier information technology supplier. IBM Microelectronics develops, manufactures and markets state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies, products, packaging and services. Its superior integrated solutions can be found in many of the world's best-known electronic brands. IBM has trademarked the name InfiniBlue(TM) for its InfiniBand-related standard products. More information about IBM's InfiniBlue products can be found at: http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/infiniband. Note to Editors: InfiniBand(TM) is a registered trademark of the InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and (SM) 3Com is a registered trademark of 3Com Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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