Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: InfiniBand silicon technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 July 2003
InfiniBand silicon enables
host channel adapters
Sanmina-SCI is developing InfiniBand switch and host channel adapter solutions based on Agilent's high-performance InfiniBand silicon technology
Sanmina-SCI is developing InfiniBand switch and host channel adapter (HCA) solutions for servers, data centres and high-performance computing applications based on Agilent's high-performance InfiniBand silicon technology. Sanmina-SCI currently employs the Agilent HDMP-2840 InfiniBand switch chip for switch products serving enterprise data centre customers that require low-latency, high-speed communications.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 July 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Agilent HDMP-2840 includes 32 embedded serdes devices and offers eight ports, each running at 10Gbit/s full duplex.
Sanmina-SCI also plans further development of InfiniBand products based on Agilent's second-generation silicon technology, including a 12x/4x switch and a high-performance HCA.
"We continue to develop our line of platform products for InfiniBand that enable our enterprise computing and storage customers to deploy InfiniBand technology", said Greg Thompson, InfiniBand Program Director at Sanmina-SCI.
"Sanmina-SCI is committed to developing InfiniBand ODM solutions based on leading silicon provider offerings.
Agilent is a leading IC technology provider with a reputation for high quality, global support and high-volume manufacturing.
These assets combined with its high-performance InfiniBand ICs made our decision to work with Agilent an easy one".
"We are very pleased that Sanmina-SCI selected Agilent's InfiniBand ICs to extend their family of end-to-end InfiniBand ODM solutions for the corporate data centre", said Dr Hungwen Li, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's RedSwitch Division.
"The alliance of Sanmina-SCI and Agilent further extends the leadership each company has demonstrated in the deployment of the InfiniBand architecture within the enterprise.
It also marks another major milestone in the evolution and deployment of the InfiniBand architecture".
As an early supporter of InfiniBand technology, Agilent has a wide array of InfiniBand product offerings ranging from test equipment and tools supporting development of the technology to InfiniBand silicon.
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