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DOMITIUS (20290)
DOMITIUS is a consortium of European storage and networking industry leaders combined with leading integrated circuit suppliers that aims to develop, demonstrate, and market products for the emerging high speed Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks that will form the core of tomorrow's information superhighway.
The partners plan to combine their resources to bring to market all the components of an ATM Adapter card operating at 622 megabits per second (Mbps) constituting a complete ATM endpoint system, including the chip-sets, an adapter board, a device driver and application program interfaces.
This ATM endpoint will consist of a CETIA developed Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus ATM Adapter Card developed with highly integrated GaAs physical layer circuits (IC) designed by GIGA, and ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) controller ASIC developed by University of Patras with the assistance of a European Foundry. MultiStream Systems will develop the adapter firmware, an operating system device driver, an ATM Application Programmer's Interface (API), and related support software. The interaction among all these entities will be structured so as to make everything except for the API completely transparent to a user application, to simplify and standardize inter-communication between entities, and to support the emerging network attached storage and computer cluster applications that require very large bandwidth.
ATM products developed as part of the DOMITIUS project will be marketed and sold world wide. The ATM cells will be exploited as ASIC library elements and will extend the ELI library offer in the ATM direction.This project will be developed within the OMI framework. A family of ATM library cells conforming with the ELI library interface specification will be developed. A full ATM chipset will be available at the end of the project, and demonstrated in a computing cluster system and in a storage system.
With the move towards fast networking, OEM opportunities for the software technology are appearing, which are being exploited for when the necessary industrial strength has been provided.
Achievements:
Start date: November 1995
End date: November 1998
Project Coordinator:
Uros Janko
MultiStream Network Technology
Starnbergerstrasse 16
D 82343 Poecking
Germany
Tel: 0049-8157 3497
Email: uros_janko@compuserve.com
Partners:
CETIA (France)
GIGA (Denmark)
MultiStream Network Technology (Germany)
University of Patras (Greece)