Jul 12 2010
Supplier of advanced computer interconnects, Aprius, announced that the new Aprius MMPe transceiver technology offers a PCIe (PCI Express) 2.0x16 interconnect up to 100 m over fiber optics.
The Aprius’ PCIe card offers a bandwidth of up to 80 Gbps between a target system and a host server. The company will demonstrate the new technology at the Supercomputing '0 317 8 event in Austin.
The parallel optics technology was specifically developed to operate at 10 Gbps or to operate at double the encoded bandwidth of PCIe 2.0, thus offering high-performance interconnects. With the optical cables’ flexibility, distance and user-friendliness, Aprius intends to use the technology to enable low-power 80, 40 and 20 Gbps interconnects. The new technology will be incorporated into Aprius systems, which is under development.
Aprius’ Vice President of Product Marketing, Craig Thompson, stated that the MMPe transceiver technology was developed to improve the power and cost over other existing optics solutions. The transceiver technology is suitable for those systems that use the PCIe as an interconnect, and the technology’s low-latency performance and bandwidth signifies that it offers significant value for applications, namely high-performance clustering, and I/O and storage virtualization.