InfiniBandSM Trade Association Announces Three Additional Sponsoring Members
PORTLAND, November 30, 2000 - The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) today announced that Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD) and EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) have been elected as Sponsoring Members of the Trade Association. These three companies join current Sponsoring Member companies: 3Com, Adaptec, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, Lucent Technologies, NEC and Nortel Networks.
"The addition of three storage industry leaders to the Sponsoring Membership roster underscores the growing industry commitment and momentum for the InfiniBandTM Architecture," said Tom Macdonald, co-chair of the InfiniBand Trade Association. "The InfiniBand Trade Association has brought leaders from the server, networking, and storage segments together to the next generation server input/output interconnect for the industry."
"Agilent, Brocade, and EMC have been important contributors to the InfiniBand Trade Association, and we are pleased by their support and commitment to InfiniBand Architecture," said Tom Bradicich, co-Chair of the InfiniBand Trade Association. "As Sponsoring Members, their storage expertise will bring added strength to the IBTA. We are pleased to welcome EMC, Brocade, and Agilent as Sponsoring Members of the InfiniBand Trade Association."
All three companies have long been innovators in Enterprise technology. Agilent Technologies, an early promoter of InfiniBand Technology, debuted a prototype InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Router in August of this year. Brocade Communications Systems is one of the leading suppliers of Fibre Channel fabric solutions for Storage Area Networking. For the past 10 years EMC Corporation has been one of the worlds largest suppliers of information storage infrastructures.
The announcement of the three new Sponsoring Members follows the recent launch of the InfiniBand 1.0 specification at the Trade Association's most recent conference attended by over 650 developers.
The InfiniBand Trade Association's Steering Committee is responsible for the election of Sponsoring Members. The seven Steering Committee companies are Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Started in August 1999, the InfiniBand Trade Association is made up of over 200 companies from every segment of the industry. On October 24, the Trade Association announced the finalization of the InfiniBand Architecture1.0 specification. This specification is publicly available for purchase and download from the Trade Association Website: www.infinibandta.org. The InfiniBand Trade Association is comprised of eight special workgroups, each with its own charter and area of expertise. The workgroups include: Marketing, Technical, Applications, Compliance and Interoperability, ElectroMechanical, Link, Management, and Software.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a diversified technology company with approximately 47,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries. Agilent is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. In fiscal year 2000, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com.
About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) is the leading provider of Storage Area Networking infrastructure. The Brocade SilkWorm¨ family of Fibre Channel switches and software is designed to optimize data availability in the storage enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of Storage Area Networks (SANs), reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency and performance. For more information please visit www.brocade.com.
About EMC Corportion
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.emc.com.
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 500 Mbyte/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.
Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners InfiniBand(TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association.
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