Banderacom Demonstrates First InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 First Solution for Connecting InfiniBand Powered Servers and Fibre Channel Powered Storage Area Networks Banderacom, a leading fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company today announced the storage and networking industry's first technology demonstration of an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter (TCA TCA 1. trichloroacetic acid. 2. tricarboxylic acid cycle (Krebs cycle). TCA Tricyclic antidepressant, see there ) prototype. "This industry-first demonstration of an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter (TCA) complements our existing solutions for InfiniBand-to-Ethernet and InfiniBand-to-TCP/IP offload systems, reinforcing Banderacom's position as the leading provider of InfiniBand target silicon," said Les Crudele, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Banderacom. "Working with leading partners such as QLogic, Wind River Systems, Lane15 Software and Intel, Banderacom continues to build on its success in delivering the features and functions that will power early-to-market InfiniBand equipment." QLogic announced in May that it chose Banderacom's IBandit chips to power QLogic's high performance InfiniBand SANblade connectivity solutions. "Banderacom is clearly the leader in InfiniBand target channel adapter silicon," said Rob Davis, vice president of advanced technology, QLogic Corporation, the first company to develop an InfiniBand switch. "Early demonstrations of InfiniBand connectivity, such as this collaboration on the first InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel solution, lay the foundation for rapid deployment of InfiniBand in storage and networking applications in 2002." "InfiniBand's early success will depend in part on its ability to work with complementary and competing technologies such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel," said Gordon Haff, research director for high-end architectures, Aberdeen Group. "Banderacom's InfiniBand to Fibre Channel target demonstration is therefore an important step in the company's development of InfiniBand technology." The prototype InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel TCA is built with Banderacom's high performance IBandit prototype chipset. It features InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel software developed by QLogic and was developed in less than 45 days using Banderacom's IBandit product development kit (PDK PDK Phi Delta Kappa (professional organization for teachers) PDK Portal Development Kit (SAP Enterprise Portal) PDK Peachtree-Dekalb Airport (Atlanta, GA, USA) ), which began shipping in February 2001. The InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel system is part of a larger demonstration that highlights three key elements of InfiniBand data centers: -- distributed storage, -- connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs, and -- connectivity to Ethernet local area networks (LANs). In the demonstration, hosted at 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 conference in Orlando, a host server fulfills requests from clients on the Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. by retrieving data stored remotely on a Fibre Channel SAN. The host server, Ethernet LAN and Fibre Channel SAN are all connected through an InfiniBand fabric utilizing Banderacom's IBandit-powered target channel adaptors (TCAs). The demonstration is hosted on a single InfiniBand fabric made up of Intel and Banderacom host channel adapter (HCA HCA, n.pr See acid, hydroxycitric. ) nodes, a 16-port QLogic InfiniBand switch and a variety of Target Channel Adaptor (TCA) nodes powered by Banderacom's IBandit prototype chipset. Each IBandit node contains a Lane15 Subnet Management Agent (SMA (1) See SMA connector. (2) (Shared Memory Architecture) See shared video memory. (3) (Software Maintenance Association) A membership organization that began in 1985 and ended in 1996. ), while other nodes use SMAs from Intel Corporation. The entire subnet is managed by a Lane15 Fabric Manager and monitored by a graphical management interface both locally in the Banderacom booth and remotely from the Lane15 Software booth. A CATC CATC Cisco Academy Training Center CATC Computer Access Technology Corporation (Santa Clara, CA, USA) CATC Clean Air Technology Center CATC Combined Arms Training Center CATC Calhoun Area Technology Center InfiniBand Protocol Analyzer graphically demonstrates the InfiniBand traffic generated by the demonstration. 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 QLogic Corp. QLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QLGC) is changing the way the world views Storage Area Networks (SANs), serving OEMs, VARs and system integrators with the only end-to-end SAN infrastructure 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.
Note: All QLogic-issued press releases appear on the company's Web site (www.qlogic.com). Any announcement that does not appear on the QLogic Web site has not been issued by QLogic. 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 ) and will participate in the first InfiniBand plugfest in June in Orlando, Fla. 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 (www.infinibandta.org). For more information, visit our Web site at www.banderacom.com, or call 512/302-0002. |
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