Cisco Systems Joins Future I/O Developers Alliance to Help Shape the Future of Data Center Networking.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 1999-- Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) today announced it has become a promoter in the Future I/O An input/output architecture developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that evolved into InfiniBand. Future I/O was expected to replace the PCI bus in high-end servers with a switching matrix, providing a high-speed data path between each pair of nodes. Alliance, an industry consortium for creating new input/output (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 ) standards for server-to-server and server-to-storage communications. Other Future I/O promoters include Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, 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) , 3Com and Adaptec. The Alliance's goal is to develop open standards that will help enterprises and service providers scale application servers to handle increasing traffic from electronic business and Internet customers. The standards address key issues of improving reliability, availability, and scalability over current I/O networking technologies. "We are excited about the potential of the Future I/O standards to integrate the best of I/O and data networking," said Frank Maly, director of marketing for Cisco's InterWorks Business Division. "Future I/O is more than just a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). replacement. It is designed to interconnect servers, I/O devices, and efficiently connect to existing IP networks for client and remote I/O access. We look forward to using our internetworking skills to further develop the Future I/O specifications." Future I/O Developers Forum The next Future I/O Developers Forum will be held on May 25, in Santa Clara to share the progress of the Future I/O specification. The final Future I/O specification will be released later this year. For additional information or to register for the meeting, visit the Future I/O Web site at http://www.futureio.org. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco news and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. Note to Editors: Cisco, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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