Banderacom and Lane15 Software Partner To Deliver InfiniBand Silicon and Software System Solutions; Lane15's Software to Ship With Banderacom's IBandit Architecture.Business Editors & Technology Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001 Banderacom(TM), a leading fabless InfiniBand(TM) semiconductor company, and Lane15 Software(TM), the leading developer of InfiniBand management software, today announced a partnership to deliver integrated silicon, software, and development tools to InfiniBand equipment manufacturers. Specifically, the Lane15 Management Agent, a critical software element required in each component of standards-compliant InfiniBand equipment, will be shipped with Banderacom's IBandit InfiniBand silicon products, and in 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) ). "Banderacom's objective is to enable rapid InfiniBand system development," 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, Inc. "The Lane15 Management Agent completes our software offering and enables our product development kit to perform out-of-the-box as a functioning `reference design' that our customers, networking and computing computing - computer equipment manufacturers, can utilize as-is, or customize by plugging-in their own hardware and software." "Banderacom's IBandit Product Development Kit provides the essential tools for rapid development of InfiniBand target solutions," said Alisa Nessler, president and CEO of Lane15 Software. "We look forward to working with Banderacom and other leading InfiniBand vendors to deliver world-class InfiniBand solutions." Lane15 is developing fabric management software - the glue glue: see adhesive. glue Adhesive substance resembling gelatin, extracted from animal tissue, particularly hides and bones, or from fish, casein (milk protein), or vegetables. that holds an InfiniBand environment together, supporting initialization in·i·tial·ize tr.v. in·i·tial·ized, in·i·tial·iz·ing, in·i·tial·iz·es Computer Science 1. To set (a starting value of a variable). 2. To prepare (a computer or a printer) for use; boot. 3. , configuration, routing, monitoring, and fail-over. The Lane15 offerings will deliver an open, vendor-neural software solution that reduces time-to-market for InfiniBand products while saving development costs for hardware vendors and deployment costs for end users. Banderacom recently introduced a prototype chip set and PDK for the IBandit InfiniBand silicon architecture. IBandit's advanced InfiniBand silicon architecture includes 4X (10 gigabit) link speed, PCIX, integrated SerDes, and the industry's only InfiniBand Protocol Engine, and provides the highest bandwidth channel adaptor An alternate spelling of "adapter." See adapter. (tool) Adaptor - (Automatic DAta Parallelism TranslatOR) A source to source transformation tool that transforms data parallel programs written in Fortran 77 with array extensions, parallel loops, and layout directives to solution available. IBandit's single chip solution enables high density, high performance, low-power systems by providing the industry's most integrated InfiniBand system-on-chip device. Banderacom's PDK includes expandable host and target channel adaptor systems, IBandit prototype chips, documentation, and software from Banderacom, Lane15, and WindRiver Systems. InfiniBand is an industry standards based 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. technology that dramatically increases scalability, reliability, and flexibility of server and storage systems used in modern networks. Whereas today's storage and server networks require a multitude of different interconnect technologies including Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. , 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). interconnect, ultimately InfiniBand can replace any or all of these within data centers providing a universal interconnect fabric enabling new, lower cost, higher performance, and more reliable networks that are not possible today. 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 is an industry trade organization dedicated to developing and promoting the InfiniBand architecture. More information about the InfiniBand Trade Association and specifications can be found at www.infinibandta.org. About Lane15 Software Lane15 Software is the leading developer of fabric management software for heterogeneous InfiniBand networks. The company's open, vendor-neutral products will be an early requirement for the development of InfiniBand hardware products as well as a key to the successful exploitation of InfiniBand in customer environments. InfiniBand hardware and software vendors will benefit from reduced time-to-market for new InfiniBand products, lower development costs for building required fabric management elements, ensured interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. , and vastly accelerated customer and industry adoption of InfiniBand technology. Lane15 is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company is funded by Austin Ventures, AV Labs, Compaq Computer Corp., Intel Capital and Lightspeed venture Partners. Lane15 is a member of the InfiniBand(TM) Trade Association. For additional information about Lane15, visit www.lane15.com. About Banderacom Banderacom is an Austin, TX-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 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, Intel, and Jato Tech Ventures. Banderacom is a member of InfiniBand Trade Association (www.infinibandta.org). For more information visit our website at www.banderacom.com, or call 512/302-0002. InfiniBand(TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand(SM) Trade Association. All other names and brands are property of their respective owners. |
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