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(BW) Banderacom and Lane15 Software Partner To Deliver InfiniBand Silicon and Software System Solutions; Lane15's Software to Ship With Banderacom' s IBandit Architecture
HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www .HoustonChronicle.com
Feb. 26, 2001, 8:05AM
Business Editors & Technology Writers
(c)2001 Business Wire.
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001--Banderacom™, a leading fabless lnfiniBand™ semiconductor company, and Lane 15 Software™, the leading developer of InfmiBand management software, today announced a partnership to deliver integrated silicon, software, and development tools to InfiniBand equipment manufacturers. Specifically, the Lanel5 Management Agent, a critical software element required in each component of standards-compliant InfiniBand equipment, will be shipped with Banderacom's mandit InfiniBand silicon products, and in Banderacom's mandit Product Development Kit (PDK).
"Banderacom's objective is to enable rapid InfiniBand system development," said Les Crudele, president and CEO ofBanderacom, Inc. "The Lane 15 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 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 ofInfiniBand target solutions," said Alisa Nessler, president and CEO of Lane 15 Software. "We look forward to working with Banderacom and other leading InfiniBand vendors to deliver world-class InfiniBand solutions."
Lane 15 is developing fabric management software - the glue that holds an InfiniBand environment together, supporting initialization, configuration, routing, monitoring, and fail-over. The Lanel5 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. mandit'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 solution available. mandit'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, Lanel5, and WindRiver Systems.
InfiniBand is an industry standards based interconnect 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, Fiber Channel, SCSI, and PCI 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 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
Lane 15 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, and vastly accelerated customer and industry adoption ofInfiniBand technology. Lane15 is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company is funded by Austin Ventures, A V 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 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.
CONTACT:
Banderacom
Sandy Helsel, 512/302-0002 ext.127
sandy.helsel@banderacom.com
or
Springbok Technologies
David B. Schlosser, 512/615-1607
dschlosser@sprinqbok.com
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