Mellanox Ships Over Fifty Thousand InfiniBand Ports; Robust Customer Base and 10Gb/sec InfiniBand Ports Driving Port Shipment Increases.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif. and YOKNEAM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2003 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., the leading provider of InfiniBand(SM) silicon, announced today that the company has shipped more than fifty thousand InfiniBand ports. This milestone comes just 13 months after Mellanox announced having exceeded the ten thousand port shipment milestone. The port shipment figure includes InfiniBridge, InfiniScale and InfiniHost channel adapters and switches that support 4X or 10Gb/s links. Shipments to more than 100 customers have established these devices as the leading InfiniBand silicon product families. Silicon and reference design shipments in December put Mellanox over the 50,000 port milestone, which was concurrent to the announcements by Dell Computer, 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) and Sun Microsystems that each is supporting and planning to release InfiniBand based servers in the future. In addition, it was announced in early October that Network Appliance has been shipping the InfiniBridge device in their FAS 900c series storage systems. "InfiniBand technology is delivering true 10Gb/s transport capabilities today, offering greater performance and reliability for storage, communications and computing applications in the data center as well as the embedded market place," said Eyal Waldman, 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 Mellanox Technologies. "As solution deployment is underway, Mellanox has experienced a significant pick up in 10Gb/sec InfiniBand port shipments and looks forward to this year's forthcoming OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and product announcements." About InfiniBand The InfiniBand Architecture is the only 10Gb/sec ultra low latency clustering, communication and storage interconnect in the market today. Based on an industry standard with reliability, availability, serviceability (system, design, hardware, software) Reliability, Availability, Serviceability - (RAS) Three key attributes of a computing system design. See reliability, availability, and serviceability. and manageability features designed in from the ground up, InfiniBand provides the most robust data center or HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. interconnect solution available. These attributes greatly improve TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. for the data center. Low cost InfiniBand silicon is shipping today that supports 10Gb/sec RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) A communications protocol that provides transmission of data from the memory of one computer to the memory of another without involving the CPU. InfiniBand, Virtual Interface (VI) and RDMA Over IP are all forms of RDMA. transfers and with its approved specification for 30Gb/sec, InfiniBand is at least a generation ahead of competing fabric technologies today and for the foreseeable future. About Mellanox Mellanox is the leading supplier of InfiniBand semiconductors, providing switches, Host Channel Adapters, and Target Channel Adapters to the server, communications and data storage markets. In January 2001, Mellanox Technologies delivered the InfiniBridge 10Gb/sec InfiniBand device to market, and is now shipping second-generation InfiniScale and InfiniHost silicon. The company has raised more than $89 million to date and has strong corporate and venture backing from Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. , Dell Computer, Intel Capital, Raza Venture Management, Sequoia Capital, Sun Microsystems, US Venture Partners, Vitesse and others. Mellanox has been recognized with awards in 2001 and 2002 from Computerworld, Network Computing, Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: , and Upside magazines as a key emerging technology company. The company's business operations, sales, marketing and customer support are headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.; with the design, engineering, software, system validation, and quality and reliability operations based in Israel. Note to Editors: Mellanox, InfiniBridge, InfiniHost and InfiniScale are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Inc. InfiniBand (TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark 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 . All other trademarks are claimed by their respective owners. |
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