VME blade boosts Gigabit Ethernet density

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 25, 2006

The SVME/DMV-682 FireBlade provides wire-speed performance, delivering 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single VME slot.

New from Mistral Solutions is the 6U VME64x SVME/DMV-682 FireBlade Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) multilayer switch from Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing.

The SVME/DMV-682 FireBlade is the embedded military and defence industry's densest multilayer switch enabling the vision of internetworked defence platforms within the Global Information Grid (GIG).

The SVME/DMV-682 FireBlade provides wire-speed performance, delivering 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single VME slot.

Each of the interfaces can individually auto negotiate 10/100/1000Mbit/s operation in a nonblocking manner, and the card's two 10GbE ports can be used for architecting a high performance 10G platform backbone, a redundant failover network, or can be used as an inter-switch stacking solution that can scale to higher port counts for larger systems.

Curtiss-Wright's FireBlade is available in 12/20/24 GbE port counts.

Four of the FireBlade's GbE ports can optionally be configured as Fast Ethernet to the rear panel, GbE Ethernet to the front panel, or optical fibre to the front.

Each version of the FireBlade is available in either fully managed or unmanaged versions.

One of the great advantages of the SVME-682 is its backward compatibility with Curtiss Wright's flagship VME-680 Switchblade.

Newer features of FireBlade include 10GbE-stacking links, wire-speed IPv4/v6 support, and enhanced security features, that enables a smooth upgrade path due to its pin-compatibility with the VME-680.

It enables system designers to easily interconnect boxes, compute blades, and compute nodes within platforms and is ideal for deploying COTS-based Gigabit Ethernet switching in harsh environments.

The FireBlade is available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled configurations.

FireBlade's powerful set of network management interfaces includes CLI, Telnet, SNMP and Web for easy configuration and network management.

Additionally, the FireBlade provides a wide range of switching solutions that can support the simplest to the most complex network connections.