Krish Ramakrishnan, CEO of Topspin, believes InfiniBand has actually just started to make some serious inroads with high-level support from Oracle and Sun, which is licensing Topspin's technology (see Sun Circles Topspin). "It's ironic that Fabric Networks is shutting down," he says. "The traction we're seeing with InfiniBand right now is tremendous."
Nessler, who founded Lane15 and served as its CEO, says Fabric Networks and its backers still believe in the promise of InfiniBand. The problem, she says, was simply that it was too early.
"There was not enough revenue traction and visibility soon enough," she says.
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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