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About StarFabric Connectivity
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Six Reasons to Migrate to StarFabric
Your legacy PCI architecture works well as it is, so why consider introducing new
StarFabric technology in your application? The answer is that StarFabric technol-
ogy resolves many of the critical limitations of legacy PCI environments that
become issues as your connectivity needs grow.
FIGURE 6. Benefits of Using StarFabric Over Legacy PCI
Here are several reasons to upgrade your existing I/O connectivity solution to next-
generation StarFabric.
• Scalability: Scalability is a big issue with PCI today. The shared buses in PCI
and CompactPCI systems limit performance and scalability at a time when con-
nectivity needs keep growing. Every time you add a node to a PCI or Compact-
PCI bus, performance degrades because all the devices share the same bus.
Bandwidth decreases as you add more and more devices. Adding devices to a
PCI solution means adding more buses. That means adding a PCI-to-PCI
bridge, which has limited scalability and it still doesn’t solve the bandwidth
issue.
StarFabric provides easy scalability with minimal impact on performance. You
can easily scale from a few endpoints to hundreds of them in a single switch fab-
ric. That means hundreds of endpoints with dedicated bandwidth and no impact
on throughput as you add new devices to the network.