Banderacom Delivers Industry's First Single-Chip InfiniBand Target; Highest Performance Single-Chip InfiniBand Target Also Captures Another Customer, InfiniCon.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2001 Banderacom, the leading fabless InfiniBand(R) semiconductor company, today announced it has entered production of its IBandit(tm) target channel adaptor (TCA TCA 1. trichloroacetic acid. 2. tricarboxylic acid cycle (Krebs cycle). TCA Tricyclic antidepressant, see there ), BDC (Backup Domain Controller) In a Windows NT server, a copy of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). The BDC is periodically synchronized with the PDC. See PDC. BDC - Backup Domain Controller 22104, the industry's first fully integrated InfiniBand system-on-a-chip and the foundation of Banderacom's suite of high performance InfiniBand solutions. "Developers can now begin designing and manufacturing InfiniBand products that incorporate a fully integrated, second-generation target on a single chip because of Banderacom's dedication to delivering the highest performance InfiniBand silicon solutions," said Les Crudele, president and chief executive officer of Banderacom. "Banderacom is leading the semiconductor industry's acceleration of input/output protocols, and our team has produced the highest performance InfiniBand system-on-a-chip." The IBandit TCA, BDC 22104, is available today for quantity purchase by original equipment manufacturers at a price of $225 per piece. Deliveries of the IBandit TCA in the first half of 2002 will support product qualifications and customer trials by system vendors, with deliveries in the second half of 2002 growing larger to support system vendor introductions and production shipments. Product and software development kits supporting the BDC 22104 are available immediately. BDC 22104 is the first product in Banderacom's IBandit family of high performance InfiniBand target and switch solutions. It contains a comprehensive set of standard features that reduce the time and cost of implementing complex multi-chip designs. The system-on-a-chip IBandit TCA uniquely provides a fully integrated InfiniBand Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and four media access controllers (MACs) on a single chip that supports both 1X and 4X InfiniBand links, delivering up to 10 gigabits per second of throughput, and a 133 MHz PCI/PCI-X bus. In addition, Banderacom's fully InfiniBand-compliant IBandit TCA includes an InfiniBand protocol engine that dramatically accelerates the performance of critical InfiniBand transport functions in the chip's hardware, achieving aggregate internal transaction switching throughput speeds of 150 gigabits per second. The BDC 22104 is highly optimized for InfiniBand target applications such as bridging from InfiniBand devices to Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. devices, as well as next-generation 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 protocols such as Remote Network Device Interface Specification (networking, hardware, standard) Network Device Interface Specification - (NDIS) A Microsoft Windows device driver programming interface allowing multiple protocols to share the same network hardware. E.g. TCP/IP and IPX on the same NIC. NDIS can also be used by some ISDN adapters. (RNDIS RNDIS Remote Network Driver Interface Specification RNDIS Remote Ndis ) and SCSI-over-RDMA Protocol (SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. ). Banderacom and InfiniCon Systems Inc., a premier developer of InfiniBand-enabled sharable input/output (I/O) subsystems, announced today that InfiniCon will be among the industry's first customers to incorporate the IBandit TCA. "Banderacom's integrated and high density solutions have made it InfiniCon's leading choice for the InfiniBand TCA component of our intelligent sharable I/O subsystem," said Phil Murphy, president and co-founder of InfiniCon Systems. "As a leader in sharable I/O solutions, InfiniCon Systems recognized the competitive advantages we can achieve by integrating Banderacom's second-generation IBandit TCA into InfiniBand-compliant I/O systems for medium and large data centers." "Banderacom incorporates a flexible and extensible set of features that demonstrate the evolution of the InfiniBand marketplace and really make its IBandit target a second-generation InfiniBand solution," said Vernon Turner, group vice president, global enterprise server solutions at IDC. "Banderacom's IBandit architecture and the products developed with it raise the bar for any InfiniBand competitors who follow." QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the only end-to-end storage area network (SAN) infrastructure provider, announced plans to incorporate Banderacom's IBandit TCAs into its storage products in May 2001. "QLogic has worked with Banderacom since May to develop our next-generation, InfiniBand-enabled SANblade(tm) product, and the development tools and support provided by Banderacom during this time are outstanding," said Mark Edwards, senior vice president at QLogic. "The InfiniBand solutions QLogic is developing with Banderacom's IBandit chips will help reduce storage costs by increasing density and accelerating throughput up to 30 gigabits per second." About InfiniBand Architecture InfiniBand architecture is an industry standards-based interconnection technology that dramatically increases scalability, reliability and flexibility of server and storage systems used in modern networks. InfiniBand architecture is expected to replace Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). as the technologies currently required to connect today's storage and server networks. InfiniBand architecture provides a universal interconnect fabric enabling new, lower cost, higher performance and more reliable networks that are not possible today. About Banderacom Banderacom is an Austin, Texas-based 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. focused on dramatically increasing the performance and reliability of networking, storage, and server system products in the dynamic new world of InfiniBand. Banderacom provides flexible, high performance semiconductors based on InfiniBand specifications. Banderacom is also an active member of the InfiniBand Trade Association's Compatibility and Interoperability Working Group (CIWG CIWG Critical Infrastructure Working Group CIWG Collaboration Interoperability Working Group CIWG Communications Interoperability Working Group CIWG Cyberinfrastructure Working Group CIWG Combat Identification Working Group CIWG Critical Interfaces Working Group ). Banderacom was founded in 1999 by a veteran team from the microprocessor and communications semiconductor industries. Banderacom is funded by multiple capital partners including Austin Ventures, Infinity Venture Capital, Jato Tech Ventures, Trinity Venture Capital, Crossroads Systems, Intel, and QLogic Corporation. Banderacom is a member 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 (www.infinibandta.org). For more information visit our Web site at www.banderacom.com, or call 512/302-0002. About InfiniCon Systems Inc. InfiniCon Systems Inc. is a premier developer of sharable I/O subsystems. The company's products are designed to reduce complexity, improve manageability and lower total cost of ownership by allowing InfiniBand-capable servers access to Fibre Channel, Ethernet and server-to-server communication via an intelligent, high availability sharable I/O subsystem. InfiniCon Systems is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania For Kings of Prussia, see List of rulers of Prussia King of Prussia is an unincorporated community in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 18,511. . The company is a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association and the Storage Network Industry Association, which includes the Direct Access File System (DAFS (Direct Access File System) A high-performance file sharing protocol based on the VI memory-to-memory architecture. Designed for storage area networks (SANs), DAFS provides bulk data transfer directly between the application buffers of two machines without ) Collaborative. Additional information is available at the company's Web site, www.infiniconsys.com. About QLogic QLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QLGC) is changing the way the world views Storage Area Networks (SANs), serving OEMs, VARs and system integrators with the broadest line of SAN and NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular infrastructure components in the industry. With over 15 years of enterprise storage experience, the company delivers a full range of Fibre Channel switches Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
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