Specifications

Starting With StarFabric:The StarFabric Connectivity Guide 5

StarFabric Features & Benefits

StarFabric’s technology provides the latest connectivity features available, as

shown in Figure 4.

FIGURE 4. StarFabric Basic Features & Benefits

Scalability

StarFabric technology provides scalability that is unmatched by existing connectiv-

ity solutions in terms of throughput, number of connections, and the physical size

of an application. With StarFabric, you can scale from a few chassis directly con-

nected together to room-scale topologies connected together by StarFabric

SCALABILITY

•A few to hundreds of endpoints

•Chassis-to-chassis or room-scale connectivity

•2.5 Gbps serial links up to 30 Gbps switching

AVAILABILITY

•Redundant physical connectivity

•Hot swap capability

•Auto-failover & error recovery

•Five Nines Reliability

COMPATIBILITY

•Fully transparent support for

legacy PCI bridge and

gateway operation

•Migration path from legacy PCI to

Next-Generation connectivity

QUALITY OF SERVICE

•Multiple traffic classes

•Credit-based flow control

•Simultaneous communication

•Network convergence

for all traffic

STANDARDS

•PICMG 2.17

•PCI 2.2

•PCI 3.3