InfiniCon Systems, the premier provider of shared I/O and switching solutions for next-generation server networks, announced today that it has been elected to the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) steering committee. InfiniCon’s chief technology officer, Todd Matters, will serve as a committee director. In this strategic role of defining and championing the InfiniBand Architecture, InfiniCon joins such leading industry companies as Agilent Technologies, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Network Appliance, and Sun Microsystems. Founded in June 2000, InfiniCon Systems was one of the earliest supporters and initial developers of InfiniBand technology. The company’s InfinIO‰ product family provides the industry’s most complete high-performance networking and I/O solutions based on InfiniBand, enabling commodity servers to communicate at 10Gbps to 30 Gbps and share I/O connectivity across multiple network types. The technology has seen significant acceleration of adoption during 2003, as evidenced by InfiniCon’s announcement in September that its InfinIO Switching Series has been selected by Fujitsu for use in building one of the world’s largest supercomputer clusters. "InfiniCon Systems’ dedication to InfiniBand-based solutions is directly in line with the IBTA’s ongoing mission of bringing these interconnect solutions to the broad market. Our appointment to the IBTA board brings us together with highly-respected companies in a common goal – furthering the adoption of InfiniBand," said Todd Matters, CTO of InfiniCon Systems. "We are looking forward to extolling the virtues of InfiniBand as a member of the steering committee."