The Ethernet Alliance 

The Ethernet Alliance is a consortium of system and component vendors, industry experts, and university and government professionals who are committed to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology.

The mission of the Ethernet Alliance is to promote industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of technology and products based on both existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards and their management. For more information go to www.ethernetalliance.org

OpenFabrics Alliance

The OpenFabrics Alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to expanding and accelerating the adoption of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technologies for server and storage connectivity. These high-speed, data-transport technologies are used worldwide in corporate data centers, high-performance computing facilities, research institutes, and industries as diverse as bioinformatics, electronic design, engineering, entertainment and media, financial services, and oil and gas.

The OpenFabrics Alliance is currently developing a unified, open-source software stack for the two major RDMA fabric technologies — InfiniBand and iWARP (also known as RDMA over Ethernet). The Alliance supports both the Linux and Windows operating environments. Alliance members include leading chip manufacturers, database providers, national laboratories, network equipment manufacturers, server and storage providers, software companies, workstation manufacturers, and more.

Blade Computing Community

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community whose goals are to provide leadership to the blade server market, to foster a collaborative community of customers and members to expand the blade ecosystem, and to accelerate the growth and adoption of technologies and solutions in the market.

More information is available at www.blade.org.

University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory

Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is a non-profit organization that offers comprehensive interoperability and conformance-based testing through 19 technology-based groups, called consortiums. Test solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, point-to-point and multi-system scenarios. The UNH-IOL is the networking industry's premiere independent proving ground for developing technologies, providing leading-edge facilities and support in objective group tests and technology forums devoted to nearly every facet of networking. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL website at www.iol.unh.edu.

UNH-IOL Builds RDMA Test Bed, Byte and Switch

PCI-SIG

PCI-SIG is the Special Interest Group that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines and implements new industry-standard I/O (Input/Output) specifications as the industry's local I/O needs evolve. The PCI Special Interest Group was formed in 1992, and the organization became a nonprofit corporation, officially named "PCI-SIG" in the year 2000. Currently, more than 860 industry-leading companies are active PCI-SIG members worldwide.

Chelsio Communications' T110 10GbE Protocol Engine has passed PCI-SIG compliance, and Chelsio is a participating member in PCI-SIG.