Voltaire enters InfiniBand market
 
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InfiniBand got a shot in the arm last week with the introduction of Voltaire, a company making a switch/router for the next-generation I/O technology.
Headquartered in Boston, Voltaire is building a line of switch/routers called nVigor that will initially be used to cluster servers.
The nVigor3000 will be the company's first switch/router, scheduled for rollout in the first half of this year.
The nVigor 3000 lets users connect storage devices, network gear and servers into a high-performing bundle. The technology Voltaire uses will translate InfiniBand traffic to TCP/IP, letting it pass through to server or storage clusters. It solves the bandwidth and CPU bottlenecks that occur when IP tunneling is used to connect InfiniBand to IP networks.
Voltaire's product roadmap shows that second-generation products will be faster and offer increased functionality over the nVigor3000. In addition, the nVigor switch/routers will be followed by a blade-based InfiniBand router and a chassis-based multiprotocol router that features Fibre Channel-to-InfiniBand, Secure Sockets Layer and virtualization, as well as third-party blades by 2005.
Voltaire was founded in 1997 by individuals from 3Com, Avaya, EMC, Cisco, Lucent, Motorola and Intel.
The nVigor3000 will be priced at about $20,000.
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Deni Connor is a senior editor at Network World covering storage, SANs, Novell and Novell-related products. You can reach her at dconnor@nww.com.
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