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ADVISORY/StarGen to Present at Server Blade Summit; Discussions to Focus on Server Blade Standards and Interfaces.


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ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week.  (March 4)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

StarGen

WHO:    Greg Whelan, StarGen's director of product marketing and
        secretary of the StarFabric Trade Association, will be
        participating in a Birds-of-a-Feather discussion on Server
        Blade Standards at this week's Server Blade Summit. He will
        also be presenting in Session 106: Interfaces. With over 15
        years of technical marketing experience in the
        telecommunication industry, Whelan is a frequently published
        author and has been a featured speaker at numerous industry
        events.

WHAT:   A fabless semiconductor company and creator of the StarFabric
        interconnect architecture, StarGen recently unveiled new
        product plans, including the StarXpress family of bridges and
        switches, which will connect to PCI Express, and the sample
        availability of the SG3010, TDM-to-StarFabric bridge. Along
        with the current family of products, StarFabric can enable
        blade servers through use of its inherent characteristics,
        including scalability, high-availability, transparency,
        supportive of multiple classes of traffic, compatibility, open
        standard-based, and supportive of simultaneous communication.

WHERE:  The second-annual Server Blade Summit will be held at The
        Wyndham Resort in San Jose, CA. The Summit will feature
        speakers and panelists currently working with blade technology
        to educate attendees on standards, management issues and
        future trends. The Summit also will include an exhibition,
        where attendees can learn about new products and services
        already or about to be deployed.

WHEN:   The conference will take place Tuesday, March 4th to Thursday,
        March 6th, 2003. Whelan's Birds-of-a-Feather discussion on
        Server Blade Standards is slated for Tuesday, March 4th,from
        7:00 to 9:00 p.m. He will also be presenting in Session 106:
        Interfaces on Wednesday, March 5th, from 3:30 to 5:15 p.m.


About StarGen

StarGen (www.stargen.com) is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab.  providing advanced serial switched interconnect (1) To attach one device to another.

(2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another.
 solutions. StarGen developed a new switched interconnect technology, StarFabric, for the communication and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  industries. The technology benefits vendors of carrier and enterprise communication platforms for next-generation voice, data, and video networks. In addition, many embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory.  benefit from StarFabric's distributed multi-processing features. StarGen's technology provides a dramatic increase in equipment performance, reliability, and Quality of Service while providing for the retention of existing standards-based hardware and software investment. StarGen is also currently developing a complementary product line, called StarXpress, based on the PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation.  Advanced Switching standard. StarFabric, available today, offers customers a seamless roadmap A roadmap may refer to:
  • A map of roads, and possibly other features, to aid in navigation
  • A plan, e.g.
  • Road map for peace, to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
 to PCI Express Advanced Switching for higher bandwidth bandwidth

Measurement of the capacity of a communications signal. For digital signals, the bandwidth is the data speed or rate, measured in bits per second (bps). For analog signals, it is the difference between the highest and lowest frequency components, measured in hertz
 solutions, when it becomes available in the future. StarGen is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. .
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