This is the last Special Report that Ray Weiss, who passed away on New Year's Eve, prepared for us. We will miss his insight, his expertise, and his friendship. (See our tribute to him in our February ...

Leading connector manufacturer Teradyne has dismissed claims that the backplane market will move to switch fabric within the next few years. Tom Pitten, development engineering manager at Teradyne ...

This device accommodates VXS node cards prior to the availability of switch-silicon specs, allowing direct connection of up to three node cards, a five-slot VXS switched serial backplane is the ...

Hi all,<br><br>I've been thinking about this for a while and thought I'd just ask. Why do switches usually have a backplane of twice the maximum transfer rate?<br><br>For example, a 48 port gigabit ...

Amanufacturer in the embedded-computer industry must choose from more than 65 fabrics on a list that just keeps growing. Many of the switched-interconnect technologies use new, specialized backplanes.

If you're like a lot of design engineers, you want to design a high-performance communications system that's scalable, supports "five-nines" high availability (HA), and is low in cost—and you need to ...

Communications systems can use the Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) as a Swiss army knife for both chip- and board-level links handling control- and data-plane traffic. ASI can replace a variety ...

Data usage across all parts of the communications network is growing rapidly, particularly in the mobile segment, where smart devices are driving exponential bandwidth growth. According to a forecast ...