Provider of analog interface units, Avago Technologies has collaborated with PLX Technology to exhibit PCI Express that is being used as a cabled box-to-box system.
This utilization paves the way for data center applications where reduction of I/O conversion, extended cabling distances, low cost and low latency generate simple architectures for the PCIe environments. The companies are demonstrating the PCI Express system that is taking place at the PCI-SIG Conference in California.
The demonstration features Avago MiniPOD parallel optical fiber modules and PLX PEX8748 PCIe Gen3 switches. Both the modules exhibit box-to-box connectivity at a speed of 64Gbps. PCI Express allows an array of applications such as GPU clustering, servers, and storage, when it is used as an interconnect solution for data centers that use parallel optics.
PLX’ Senior Director of Hardware Applications, Reggie Conley stated that the reduction of optical solution expenses would enable in replacing the expensive PCI Express conversion to InfiniBand or Ethernet with clean system architectures. Avago’s Director of Marketing for optical fiber products mentioned that the PCI Express solution is suitable for the company’s MiniPOD embedded parallel optics products that deliver the necessary performance to allow box-to-box connections. He added that the company’s partnership with Avago would enable them to develop fiber-optic solutions for latest applications.