Kaparel is releasing both the PS 1808 backplane and PS 1188 low-profile bridge, based on the PLX GigaBridge switched-PCI architecture today at the Bus and Board Conference. The PLX GigaBridge technology, featuring a dual-counter-rotating-ring architecture, delivers more than 50Gbit/s throughput performance in networking and communications systems. Available in 32 and 64bit silicon, GigaBridge enables new and legacy PCI/CompactPCI communication systems to coexist, thus preserving hardware and software investments and creating truly scalable systems.
"Partnering with leading vendors such as Kaparel is key to providing the communications industry with a complete solution", said Michael A Hopwood, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at PLX.
"PLX is very pleased to be partnering with Kaparel to help the GigaBridge technology continue to move forward and provide a critical component in solving the industry's system-level needs".
The GigaBridge architecture - available now in PLX's 32bit GBP32 and 64bit GBP64 controllers - enables PCI/CompactPCI-based telecommunications, datacommunications and embedded systems to incorporate 224 PCI bus segments, aggregate tens of gigabits per second, and connect PCI devices up to 5m apart, via a high-performance link.
A cell-based network with independent PCI bus segments connected to each port (each GBP controller can drive up to four PCI slots) and interoperates with other GigaBridge controllers as ports network.
Each GBP controller is linked via two 16bit-wide, point-to-point, low-voltage-differential links clocked at 400MHz.
This results in an aggregate bandwidth of more than 50Gbit/s.
Commenting on Kaparel's PS1808 GigaBridge backplane, Ben Robitaille, President and CEO of Kaparel stated, "We have enjoyed being a partner with PLX on the GigaBridge architecture and are proud to be able to work closely with them to introduce their solution to the market".
PLX GigaBridge architecture is one of several solutions being demonstrated at Bus and Board, providing the telecommunications industry with high capacity and high availability solutions.
These solutions will be important to the customer's demand for more voice and data information at higher speeds and without interruption.