Bay Microsystems Expands ABEx(TM) Product Family Targeting Interworking and Global Virtualization
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Bay's Chesapeake(TM) 40G Network Processor powers an enhanced line-up of high performance ABEx solutions
CHICAGO, June 18 -- Bay Microsystems, Inc. the world's fastest growing network processor company, today announced at NXTcomm 2007 (booth #6437) the ABEx40XX, the newest members of its very successful ABEx(TM) (Agile Bandwidth Exchange) family of Global Virtualization platforms designed to address the growing needs of Global Enterprise Customers. These advanced platforms are designed to link disparate data and compute centers for customers in the web portal, financial, entertainment, scientific, medical, government, and research market segments which need fast and reliable global access to high-value data. Enabled by Bay's pioneering concept of Infiniband Routing over wide area networks, the ABEx family provides virtualized connectivity to distributed storage and computing resources and supports a multitude of the industry's highest performance interfaces, including Infiniband, for Data Center connectivity, and Ethernet, IP/MPLS, SONET/SDH, and ATM, for connection over a wide area network.
The new ABEx40XX platforms incorporate a compact design with the highest available capacity for switching, aggregation and bandwidth management. Based on its newest network processor, Chesapeake(TM), the ABEx40XX family delivers up to 40G of capacity in a single slot. The family supports both single slot and multi-slot configurations.
"Commercial enterprises, research centers and public agencies face the ongoing challenge of accessing a growing number of remote data centers, compute resources and storage farms. From an overall computing experience, network users desire to work locally and connect globally," explained Gerry Jankauskas chief technical officer for Bay Microsystems, Inc. "The unique low latency high performance processing, protocol support and interface options delivered in the ABEx platform provides an unprecedented solution for accessing these islands of high-value data efficiently and securely over great distances; one not addressed by any other system vendor today.
"The rapid adoption of high-performance InfiniBand interconnect for server and storage clusters has exposed bottlenecks in the links connecting distant data centers," said Thad Omura, vice president of product marketing for Mellanox Technologies. "Bay's ABEx platform opens this bottleneck and provides a seamless, long distance InfiniBand connection for today's private and public high-value data center operators."
In recent network deployments, Bay's ABEx platform has enabled vast amounts of secure and reliable transfers of massive databases over distances of thousands of kilometers. Recently, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory announced the transmission of over 60 terabytes of InfiniBand data across a distance of 4500 km in only 32 hours utilizing the ABEx platform. This is believed to be the largest amount of Infiniband data ever transferred per unit time over a wide area network.
The initial version is scheduled to be generally available in the 2nd half of calendar year 2007.
About Bay Microsystems, Inc.
Bay Microsystems is one of the fastest growing communications semiconductor companies. As the recognized global leader in high-performance, programmable network and transport processors, its award winning products enable the delivery of converged voice, video, data and multimedia and have been deployed in mission-critical service provider, enterprise and government networks since 2003. Bay Microsystems customers include many leading government, telecom and network equipment manufacturers. For more information please visit http://www.baymicrosystems.com/.
Source: Bay Microsystems, Inc.
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