Fabric List

  1. Infiniband (2.5, 5, 10Gb/s), also (10, 30Gbs; 20, 60Gbs) multichannel http://www.ibta.org
  2. RapidIO (serial and parallel) URL: http://www.rapidio.org
  3. Starfabric (Stargen) (single and multichannel) http://www.starfabric.com
  4. PICMG 2.16, Ethernet Backplane at 1 Gb/s (Performance Technologies) (actually, Ethernet speeds are 1.25, 10, 100Gbs, including planned upgrades)
  5. PLX Ring (PLX Technologies)
  6. Broadcom (10 Gb/s ethernet) http://www.broadcom.com
  7. Vitesse (Cross-Stream-E) (Giga Stream) http://www.vitesse.com
  8. 3GIO (Intel)
  9. Hypertransport Bus (AMD)
  10. Gigastar (Inova Semi in Germany)
  11. TI PCI-to-serial LVDS (no crossbars yet)
  12. Fairchild LVDS (not yet announced in detail)
  13. Primarion (Phx, AZ) optical fabric...just released
  14. 1394b (1.6, 3.2Gbs)
  15. USB 2.X (0.48, x.xGbs)
  16. On Semiconductor (GigaComm) 13 Gb/s OC-192 http://ww.onsemi.com/gigacomm
  17. Mindspeed (iScale) 10 Gb/s ethernet
  18. Tachys (French University Project)
  19. Packet Routing Switch (IBM)
  20. Power-X (Manchester, England)
  21. Gennum (Canada) semi company working on HS serial chips (no details yet released)
  22. Internet Machines: Network processor and fabric for OC-192c and OC-768c
  23. MMC/AMCC (OC-48c, OC-192c fabric)
  24. Fibre Channel (1.0625, 2.125, 4.25, 8.5 Gbs, also 10, 40, 160 Gb/s) http://www.fibrechannel.com/
  25. Serial ATA (1.5, 3.0, 6.0Gbs)
  26. Scalable Serial I/O (no details as yet)
  27. Server Net-II (1.25Gbs)
  28. cLAN (1.25, 2.5Gbs)
  29. ATM (2.5Gbs), also (10, 40 Gb/s multistream)
  30. SONET (2.5Gbs), also (10, 40, 160Gbs) multistream
  31. OIF (10, 40Gbs) http://www.oiforum.com
  32. SCI IEEE-1596
  33. HULC
  34. Channel Link
  35. Panel Link
  36. DVI-1, DVI-2
  37. SCSI (160, 320, 640, 1280MB) Parallel
  38. HIPPI-6400 Parallel
  39. Synfinity parallel
  40. F-16 (Intel Bus) parallel connection
  41. Parallel ATA (100, 133MB)
  42. Hyperchip (Petabit Routing Company, Canada) http://www.hyperchip.com/pres_rel/010529_unveil_router.htm
  43. Myrinet (2+2 Gb/s) http://www.myri.com
  44. Raceway (Mercury Computer) http://www.mc.com/plusplus/
  45. Skychannel (Sky Computer)
  46. PI-40 (Agere) (OC-768c multi-terabit down to 10Gb/s) http://www.lucent.com/micro/NEWS/PRESS2001/060401f.html
  47. Hotlink (Cypress Semi) 3-4 years old
  48. TAXI
  49. FPDP and Serial FPDP http://www.fpdp.com
  50. G-link (Hewlett-Packard) about 3-4 years old...like Cypress' Hotlink above
  51. SBS Technologies: dataBLIZZARD - high-speed memory mapped cabled PCI bus to PCI bus bridge http://www.sbs.com/computer/products/cp_datablizard.shtml
  52. SBS Technologies: Omnispan - 64 bit PCI over LVDS cable (similar to TI's serial PCI but parallel) http://www.sbs.com/computer/products/cp_omnispan.shtml
  53. Transputer architecture (IEEE 1355?)
  54. FDDI
  55. ESCON (IBM) Mainframe Channel Switching Fabric
  56. Wildcat (Accelerant Networks) http://www.ecnmag.com/ecnmag/issues/2001/04012001/ec14wrwarticle.asp
  57. Velio http://www.velio.com/corporate/corporate_pr_2001_4.html
  58. PMC-Sierra http://www.pmc-sierra.com/products/details/pm5374/index.asp (TSE-160) http://www.pmc-sierra.com/products/details/pm5307/index.asp (TBS-9953)
  59. iCube http://www.icube.com/News/body_msx340pr.htm
  60. Quadrics QsNET http://www.quadrics.com
  61. GeodeLink (Natl Semi) http://article.ElectronicNews.com/UM/T.ASP?A5.11.600.2.1250714525
  62. QuickSD (QuickLogic) an LVDS-based soft (programmable) fabric based on FPGA technology (ie, the protocols are soft..you design your own)