Adaptive Connect Platform: Any to Any I/O Connectivity

ExpressConnect Products

The N1400-PCM PCI Express High Speed Switch Module (PCM) and the N2800-I/O Consolidation Appliance (ICA) help comprise the NextIO's Adaptive Connect™ family.

Configurability
Administrators can dynamically and remotely map servers to any shared or non-shared I/O based on real-time needs.

Connectivity
Server to I/O connectivity uses native PCI Express from the CPU chipset, making the additional connectivity low cost without worries of operating system incompatibility.

Expansion
Users are presented up to 10x the amount of I/O traditionally available to 1U servers and can make use of additional bandwidth and I/O technologies.

Capacity
Applications can make use of Terabytes of RAID storage, plus external storage capacity using iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC)

Virtualization
Data Center planners are presented with a stepping stone approach to Shared I/O enablement

N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module

The N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module enables blade servers to expand PCI Express signals outside of the chassis. It delivers a combined 35Gbps of I/O throughput external to the chassis for connectivity to standard PCI Express devices. Traditional blade server designs limit users to only one additional I/O technology from the integrated ones on the motherboard. This legacy design forces users to remove power from their blades and physically replace the I/O daughter cards to change or update their I/O technology. Additionally, if a new I/O technology is chosen for the blade, a fabric switch for the chassis I/O is typically purchased to extend the technology within the data center.

With NextIO's PCI Express shared switch module solution, blades only need to extend PCI Express from their chipset through the chassis midplane to a module bay. In a chassis module bay, a NextIO shared I/O module provides users the ability to offer multiple I/O technologies to one or more blade servers and to reassign or change I/O technologies without powering down blades. All shared I/O devices are compatible with existing operating systems and device drivers without modification. The NextIO Shared I/O module solution limits chassis management contention by eliminating the need for I/O fabric switches in the chassis. Additionally, the elimination of I/O fabric switches reduces the "out-of-box" setup time to ensure the chassis fabric is compatible with the data center fabric.

2800-ICA I/O Consolidation Appliance

The N2800-ICA enables flexible configuration of standard PCI Express devices for I/O expansion, partitioning, and virtualization. It offers up to 14 full-length, full-power PCI Express devices to be connected to and partitioned among multiple blade or rack servers.

The NextIO N2800-ICA utilizes PCI Express switching technology for I/O expansion, partitioning and virtualization. Powered by NextIO's PCI Express shared I/O technology, this product enables the flexibility to connect to higher cost fabrics at a fraction of the cost. Administrators can dynamically and remotely map servers to any shared, or non-shared I/O based on real-time needs. Server and I/O connect via native PCI Express connectivity from the CPU chipset, making the additional connectivity low cost without worries of Operating System incompatibility. Users are presented up to 10x the amount of I/O traditionally available to 1U servers and can make use of additional bandwidth and I/O technologies.