Low profile asynchcronous transfer mode expert GigaNet Inc is preparing to come to market with VI Architecture-compliant high- performance interconnect clustering products early in the second quarter. GigaNet, which was in attendance at Intel Corp’s developer event earlier this month where various VI Architecture demonstrations took place, is based in Stow, Massachusetts, and was founded four years ago by a development team from what was then AT&T Co’s Bell Labs. It developed the ATM OC-12c Protocol Engine for Intel Corp’s Paragon supercomputer. At the time, the privately-held company was promising to introduce a family of interconnect and switching products that tightly integrate communications protocols, operating systems and system processors for high throughput and low latency. The company is currently keeping tight-lipped about its product plans, but confirmed the VI Architecture technology would use asynchronous transfer mode.
