Specifications
About StarFabric Connectivity
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switches. Bandwidth speeds run from 2.5 Gbps on each link (622 Mbps for each
serial connection) up to 5.0 Gbps bundled links on individual bridges and up to 30
Gbps for switches.
Compatibility
StarFabric provides you with a simple and cost-effective migration path from
today’s industry standard bus architecture to next-generation switch fabric architec-
ture. Backward compatibility with widely available low-cost hardware and soft-
ware such as PCI and CompactPCI is assured, so you can avoid costly upgrades or
a total overhaul of your environment and still enjoy the benefits of next-generation
technology. Adopting StarFabric technology is easy because StarFabric uses exist-
ing standards-based form factor boards and CAT5 cabling for connectivity, so there
is no need for esoteric cards or board interfaces or proprietary cabling.
Quality of Service
Quality of Service is a good reason to migrate to a switched interconnect solution.
StarFabric architecture supports up to seven classes of traffic, including asynchro-
nous data communications, isochronous traffic such as voice and video, and multi-
cast traffic. This support makes StarFabric an ideal choice for environments with
converged voice, video, and data communications requirements. Furthermore, col-
lapsing your connectivity applications into one network pipe for many different
traffic types means simpler network design and lower costs.
High Availability
Today’s telecommunications applications demand high availability, but it isn’t
always easy to provide with the standard legacy bus architecture. It usually means
building completely redundant networks with costly, proprietary solutions for fail-
over and recovery. StarFabric provides all the resources you need to design highly
reliable and highly available communications applications that are cost effective
and based on an open architecture. StarFabric’s point-to-point connections support
true hot swap and plug and play capabilities so devices can be added and removed
during operation without bringing down an entire system. StarFabric provides
much needed error detection, fault isolation, notification, and automatic failover to
alternate paths if a primary path is disabled.