Network system manufacturers' demand for speed has made the backplane transceiver one of the central strategic components in communication system designs. Yet there are no solutions architected for ...

The rate of adoption of serial technology in high-end system design has reached critical mass. As shown in Fig 1, this point is supported by the fact that 92% of respondents in a recent EE Times ...

The U.S. Navy, always seeking paths to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of systems, took another step in that direction with the FlexVPX concept, which was developed at its U.S. Naval ...

When work started on developing the VPX backplane standard in 2004, members of the VITA Consortium wanted to create something which represented the next revolution in bus boards. The work drew on ...

Industry leaders form high speed backplane initiativeNews from E-InSiteAgilent, Cadence, Gennum, Intel, Marvell, Mindspeed, Texas Instruments, Tyco and Velio Communications have teamed up to form the ...

Copper backplane interconnects, struggling to meet the needs of high-speed backplane communications, are presently stuck at about 10 Gbits/s. In fact, most systems work at just 3 Gbits/s. To go any ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa.- February 3, 2003 - Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) and Accelerant Networks, the leading developer of backplane communication solutions, today announced a multi-faceted alliance to ...

Since the days when classic open platform technologies, such as VME and CompactPCI, were established in the 1980s and 1990s, the processing power available to system designers has continued to ...