Specifications

About StarFabric Connectivity
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data transfers of multiservice applications such as voice, video or data. That’s
more than five times the speed of the legacy PCI over normal links and up to 10
times faster than PCI when you bundle links, at five times the distance.
• Troubleshooting: PCI’s shared bus also makes it difficult to isolate failures.
The entire bus segment is susceptible to a single point of failure and that makes
it difficult to troubleshoot. Any single point of failure may bring down the entire
bus and force a system-wide shutdown. That means more downtime for your
system while you perform a board-by-board search to find the failure.
StarFabric provides much needed error detection with fault isolation, notifica-
tion, and automatic failover to alternate paths if a primary path is disabled. Hot
swap capability helps troubleshooting and error recovery and minimizes down-
time until you fix whatever is wrong.
• Availability: This isn’t always easy to guarantee with today’s PCI bus architec-
tures. It usually means building completely redundant networks with costly,
proprietary solutions for fail-over and recovery. That’s like building two net-
works when only one network should do the job.
StarFabric provides all the resources you need to design highly reliable and
highly available communications applications. StarFabric’s dual-link, 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. Dynamic path routing in sophisticated StarFabric applications
means no single point of failure with multiple paths to and from devices, so if a
failure occurs, the system dynamically re-directs traffic over another link.