IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, financing and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of  e-business. For more information on IBM, please visit http://www.ibm.com.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) leads the industry in innovation. FMA provides high-quality, reliable semiconductor products and services for the networking, communications, automotive, security and other markets throughout North and South America.

Founded in 2001, Neterion Inc. has locations in Cupertino, California and Ottawa, Canada. Neterion delivers 10-Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that solve customers' high-end networking problems. The Xframe line of products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe, Xframe II, and Xframe E include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without “breaking the stack.” Xframe drivers are available for all major Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix.

NetEffect is a network connectivity solutions company providing high performance, low power multi-gigabit Ethernet products. Using their unique patented Virtual Pipeline Architecture NetEffect products deliver the highest Ethernet performance in the industry while dramatically reducing latency and networking overhead on host processors for all data communications traffic. NetEffect's products implement the latest extensions ratified by the IETF for Ethernet, while maintaining full compatibility with existing Ethernet infrastructure in any datacenter.