InfiniBand Trade Association Adds Paceline Systems and Topspin Communications to Sponsor Membership

Business Wire, Jan 20, 2003

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MONTEREY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2003

Association Expands Marketing Efforts With Establishment of Embedded

Working Group

The InfiniBand(SM) Trade Association has augmented its sponsor membership with the addition of two leading InfiniBand solutions vendors, Paceline Systems and Topspin Communications.

The companies join current sponsors: Agilent Technologies, Hitachi, JNI and NEC. This announcement comes at the Server I/O conference in Monterey, California, as leading InfiniBand vendors showcase the latest in InfiniBand fabric development.

Paceline and Topspin are both emerging as leading InfiniBand systems vendors. Paceline, headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, has been featured in numerous industry demonstrations, as well as early InfiniBand trials at leading data centers, including Sandia National Labs. Topspin, headquartered in Mountain View, California, leverages InfiniBand as one key ingredient in its switched computing systems deployed by large enterprise data centers looking for on-demand high-performance computing and database clustering solutions.

"With 2003 targeted for initial data center implementations, the additions of leading systems vendors like Paceline and Topspin provide additional leadership for the Trade Association," said Jean Hoxie-Wasko, Vice President of Marketing for InfiniSwitch, a member of the Trade Association's Steering Committee.

As the InfiniBand architecture gains momentum as a standard data center clustering interconnect, with server vendor rollouts expected during 2003, the trade association is also expanding its marketing efforts to address specialist markets for which InfiniBand provides particular value. One such market is embedded systems. Embedded solutions vendors SBS Communications and SKY Computers will lead an Embedded marketing Working Group chartered to deliver marketing programs aimed at establishing InfiniBand architecture as an embedded systems interconnect standard. The group will report to the Trade Association's Marketing Working Group. InfiniBand architecture has emerged as a compelling systems interconnect solution for embedded designs.

"The embedded market has already offered incremental deployment opportunities for the InfiniBand architecture in addition to the efforts for the enterprise data center. InfiniBand capabilities are a perfect fit for embedded solutions as this market requires the bandwidth, reliability and resiliency that only InfiniBand architecture can offer," said Dana Krelle, Vice President of Marketing for Mellanox Technologies, a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association Steering Committee. "By enlisting industry leaders such as SBS Communications and SKY Computers to lead an embedded marketing effort the InfiniBand Trade Association can now deliver marketing programs for the breadth of InfiniBand implementations."

About InfiniBand Trade Association

The Internet is creating an increased demand for server computer I/O subsystem performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. A shift to a switched fabric- based I/O architecture will enable industry participants to meet this increased demand. The InfiniBand Trade Association developed a specification for a channel-based, switched fabric architecture that provides a scalable performance range of 500Mbyte/s to 6 Gbyte/s, meeting the needs from entry level to high-end enterprise systems. InfiniBand Trade Association represents the industry's choice for developing I/O technologies that will keep pace with the demands of the Internet age.

InfiniBand is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. All other trademarks are claimed by their respective owners.