Austin, TX - February 26, 2001 - Banderacom, a leading fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company, and Lane15 Software, a leading developer of InfiniBand management software, today announced a partnership to deliver integrated silicon, software and development tools to InfiniBand equipment manufacturers. Lane15's InfiniBand Fabric Management Agent (FMA), a critical software element required in each component of standards-compliant InfiniBand equipment, will operate with Banderacom's IBandit InfiniBand silicon products. Banderacom will ship Lane 15's FMA with its IBandit Product Development Kit (PDK).
“Lane15's Fabric Management Agent completes our software offering,” said Les Crudele, president and CEO, Banderacom. “It enables our product development kit to perform out-of-the-box as a functioning 'reference design' that our customers, and networking as well as computing equipment manufacturers, can utilize as-is, or customize by plugging in their own hardware and software.”
“Banderacom's IBandit Product Development Kit provides all the essential tools for rapid development of InfiniBand applications,” said Alisa Nessler, president and CEO, Lane15 Software. “We look forward to working with Banderacom and other leading InfiniBand vendors to lower development costs, ensure interoperability and vastly accelerate customer and industry adoption of InfiniBand technology.”
Lane15's Fabric Management Software is the glue that holds an InfiniBand environment together. Its FMA supports initialization, configuration, routing, monitoring and fail-over. Lane15's offerings will deliver an open, vendor-neutral software solution that reduces time to market for InfiniBand products while saving development costs for hardware vendors and deployment costs for end users.
Banderacom introduced a prototype chip set and PDK for the IBandit InfiniBand silicon architecture on February 6, 2001. IBandit's advanced InfiniBand silicon architecture includes 4X (10 gigabit) link speed, PCIX, integrated SerDes and the industry's only InfiniBand Protocol Engine. It provides the highest bandwidth channel adaptor 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 Wind River Systems.
About InfiniBand InfiniBand is an industry standards-based interconnect technology that dramatically increases scalability, reliability and flexibility of server and storage systems used in modern networks. InfiniBand is expected to replace Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, SCSI and PCI as the technologies currently required to connect today's storage and server networks. InfiniBand provides 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 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 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™ 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. For more information visit our website at www.banderacom.com, or call (512) 302-0002.
InfiniBandTM/SM is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBandSM Trade Association. All other names and brands are property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Sandy Helsel
MarCom Manager, Banderacom
(512) 302-0002 ext.127
sandy.helsel@banderacom.com
David B. Schlosser
Springbok Technologies, Inc.
(512) 615-1618
dschlosser@springbok.com