Matters insists that InfiniBand has simply been going through the growing pains of any new technology and that it has finally found its place. "If you look back at the introduction of any new technology, expectations are always set too high," he says. "First there's a downswing, then there's an upswing. We saw it with FC, ATM... InfiniBand is well past that low point and is definitely on an up-ramp now."
Enterprise Storage Group Inc. founder Steve Duplessie agrees that InfiniBand is set to grow, even though it won't be the over-hyped $50 billion market originally claimed. "[InfiniBand] will be a nice (and necessary) $500 million to $1 billion space, I think," he writes in an email. "While gun-shy, every major OEM is releasing IB based systems. All of them... That means they need to plug into something in order to connect to other servers, and the outside world."
According to a recent IDC report, the high performance computing (HPC) market is set to grow from $4.7 billion in 2002 to $6.3 billion by 2007.
One thing that's going to help this market grow, according to Matters, are low-cost, high-performance products like InfiniCon's 3000 switch family. "Our new price point will help facilitate rapid growth," he asserts.
The 32-port core switch has a list price of $27,995, or about $875 a port. "That's 10 gigabits of bandwidth for only $875," Matters says. The company is not releasing the pricing for the two edge switches yet, but Matters says they will be considerably cheaper.
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