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BEDFORD, Mass.- Voltaire, a leader in intelligent connectivity for high performance InfiniBand solutions, today announced it has chosen Sanmina-SCI Corporation (Nasdaq NM: SANM) as its InfiniBand contract manufacturing partner. Under the terms of the agreement, Sanmina-SCI will manufacture Voltaire's InfiniBand connectivity systems. Sanmina-SCI also becomes the provider of choice for ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) InfiniBand platform products such as HCAs. Sundar Kamath, Sr. Vice President, Global Technology Solutions, Sanmina-SCI commented, "Voltaire's expertise is in design and development of systems and software. In partnering with Sanmina-SCI for manufacturing and ODM products, it leads to a broad and complementary relationship, which will meet the needs of the large OEMs." Dr. Kamath added, "InfiniBand is a strategic market for us and we have announced a family of ODM products in this space. We are very pleased to become an integral part of Voltaire's supply chain and to be part of its success in the growing market for InfiniBand systems." "This is a significant milestone for Voltaire as we move to volume commercial availability of our InfiniBand systems," said Ronnie Kenneth, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Voltaire. "Through our alliance with Sanmina-SCI, we can offer our customers the benefits of a global reach and the quality that is achieved through Sanmina-SCI's extensive testing capabilities. Additionally we benefit from Sanmina-SCI's knowledge of our market through its role as an ODM of complementary InfiniBand platform products." Voltaire offers a family of high performance, easy to deploy products that enable data centers and high performance computing environments to benefit from the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) offered by InfiniBand. Among the products offered are the Voltaire ISR 6000, a modular InfiniBand switch router; the ISR 9600, the industry's most scalable InfiniBand switch for high performance computing (HPC) environments, and the Voltaire HCA 400 host channel adapter with a comprehensive and mature InfiniBand software stack. The result is an unmatched performance within InfiniBand clusters and in their connectivity with the existing infrastructure.