"We're reusing the stuff that's available today," he says. "Customers don't want to have to manage a new protocol."
Meanwhile, Voltaire is providing FC connectivity through four-port Fibre Channel blades, providing up to 96 ports in a single chassis. The FC blades, which use silicon developed by QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq: QLGC), will be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2003. Pricing was not available.
The Bedford, Mass., startup is also working with StoreAge Networking Technologies Ltd. to integrate StoreAge's virtualization software with its switch, so that servers in the InfiniBand fabric see multiple back-end FC or IP SANs as integrated volumes.
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