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News Release from: PLX Technology Europe | Subject: ExpressLane PCIe switches
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 June 2007
Switches speed throughput
to storage systems
PLX Technology PCIe switches form the interconnect backbones in NEC Corp's recently announced D-Series scalable storage systems
PLX Technology PCIe switches are used as the interconnect backbones in NEC Corp's recently announced D-Series scalable storage systems. NEC designed into the D-Series several PLX ExpressLane PCIe switches with multiple lane and port configurations to help enhancement of their systems performance and throughput.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 June 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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PLX switches offer the industry's lowest power and latency along with a proven feature-rich architecture.
'NEC D-Series storage systems set a new industry standard with nondisruptive performance and are designed to meet the most demanding requirements of mission critical applications for scalability, availability and business continuity', says Chikara Suzuki, Assistant General Manager, Systems Storage Products Division, NEC Corporation Japan.
'PLX's PCI Express switch technology helped us to achieve superior performance in the complex interconnect backbone that the D-Series commands'.
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'PLX interconnect technology has long played a significant role in storage - from our original PCI bus controllers up through our PCI Express switches and bridges now enabling large-scale enterprise systems', says David Raun, PLX Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.
'NEC's selection of PLX PCI Express switches for the D-Series reflects the strong commitment PLX has made to the enterprise-storage market, and how these two market leaders are successfully expanding the deployment of PCI Express'.
PLX Technology has the industry's most advanced and successful lineup of PCIe switches and bridges, now totalling 17 devices, most of which are in full production today.
As the world's leading provider of PCI Express interconnect silicon, the company deploys its proven third-generation architecture in its products.
PLX now offers 13 PCIe switches with wide-ranging lane and port configurations, as well as four PCIe bridges providing PCI, PCI-X and local-bus support.
ExpressLane switches' high-speed PCIe performance, flexible ports, wide range of lane counts, and Hot-Plug functions are enabling the D-Series storage arrays to achieve a new standard for scalability, performance and availability.
The D-Series storage arrays provide small to large enterprises with a cost-effective way to scale storage - from 219Gbyte to 1.1Pbyte - while the systems remain online.
Their nondisruptive upgrades are made possible through the D-Series' revolutionary design - the first to unify the characteristics of midrange modular and enterprise storage architectures in a single system.
Enterprises can also scale from 4 to 128Gbyte of cache, from eight to 64 lines of 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel, and from three to 1536 disk drives.
This broad, nondisruptive scalability provides businesses with incredible flexibility in deploying a storage system for today's needs that can grow to meet tomorrow's demands.
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