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InfiniSwitch Company Confidential
InfiniSwitch Agenda
• InfiniBand Overview
• Company Overview
• Product Strategy
• Q&A
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InfiniBand™, an Industry wide effort…
InfiniBand™ Trade Association
Steering Committee Members
http://www.infinibandta.org
V1.0 Specification
Published Oct 2000
>229 IBTA members… 50 Companies have announcement 106 Products
Source: InfiniBand™ Trade Association
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TCP/IP vs. InfiniBand
Ordinary
Network
InfiniBand
Network
Application & Data
Application & Data
Sockets
VI API
TCP
IP
Ethernet
•Hardware data fragmentation
•Hardware data reassembly
•No user/kernel data copies
•2.5x Performance Increase
•5 memory operations become 2
•Oracle, DB2, SQL run VI today
•VI bypasses the kernel stack
•7000/50 instruction advantage
InfiniBand standardizes the
adapter architecture and the OS
interface to the adapter as well
as the format of data on the wire
Network Driver
Network Hardware
RDMA benefits:
Network Hardware
InfiniBand
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Company Background
• Started operations in September of 2000
• 75 employees on board today
• Develop and market a family of InfiniBand switch
products targeted at large data centers
- Beta product in Q3’ 2001
- First customer shipments in Q4’ 2001
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InfiniSwitch Team
• Management team
- Outstanding industry network of contacts
- Track record in building successful businesses
• Engineering team expertise
- Delivered backbone switching products
- GIGAswitch/FDDI,GIGAswitch/ATM,Lucent Terabit Switch Router
- ASIC design and delivery
- Embedded network software, Java GUI
- OS, driver development
- Interoperability & systems integration for data centers
• Advisory Board
- Acknowledged leaders in their respective industry
- SAN Software, Fibre Channel Switching, System and Software Vendors
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Our Mission
Acknowledged leader of InfiniBand switching technology in
the Data Center
- Cost-optimized for open standard InfiniBand specification
– Leaf Switch
– Director Switch
- Compatible with existing data center interconnects
– Fibre Channel
– Gigabit Ethernet
– iSCSI
- Industry leading performance
– Drive enhancements to the InfiniBand standard
– Dealing with congestive loads
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The Market Opportunity
InfiniBand market opportunity is driven by the growing
Server and Storage markets
• An industry wide InfiniBand development effort is underway
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Silicon
IB Hardware
OS Support of IB
Management Software
• Early adopters in this emerging market include
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Technical Computing
Clustering
Service providers
Data center infrastructure
• Business partnerships are critical to success
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Leaf Switch
•Efficient cable management
-Rack dense server configurations
-In-rack connectivity
-Copper to fiber optic conversion
•High Availability
-Redundant switch cards
-Redundant hot-swap power + cooling
•Flexibility
•Smaller clustering deployments
•Extension of Director switch
•32 ports in 1U chassis
•Optional fiber optic uplinks
•1U x 22” deep chassis
•Future silicon technology upgrades
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Director Switch
Director Switch Benefits
•High bandwidth capability
•64-port capable, increasing to 256
•1X, 4X, 12X
•High Availability
•Redundant control processors
•Redundant active switch fabric
•Redundant N+1 power
•Redundant cooling
•9U x 24” deep chassis
•Flexibility
•Fiber Channel
•GbE
•iSCSI
•InfiniBand specification extensions
•Flow control
•InfiniSwitch Silicon
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InfiniSwitch Product Strategy
Family Of Switches
designed for the Data Center
24 slot
1x, 4x & 12x
Director Switch
8 slot
1x, 4x & 12x
Director Switch
1x & 4x
4x
1x
Leaf Switches
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Leaf Switch Developer Unit Configurations
1 16-port Switch + 1 power supply
Price: $12,000
1
4
4
2
2
16-port Switch + 1 power supply
HCA’s
3 meter copper cables
Copper SFP modules
Copper
Fiber
Fiber SFP modules
Price: $20,000
LS16-1XP10001-D
1 32-port Switch + 2 power supplies
Price: $20,000
KIT-LS16D1X-01
LS32-1XP20001-D
2 HCAs + 2 3m copper cables
Price: $5,000
KIT-2HCA1XCU-01
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InfiniSwitch Cluster Fabric
Remote Disaster
Recovery
Director Switches
3 Leaf Switches
Fibre Channel
Switch
39 x 1U servers
iSCSI
Router
GbE
Switch
Servers
Storage
Storage
Storage
InfiniBand
Direct Attached Storage
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