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StarFabric Interconnect Technology Available Now to Address Real-World System Interconnect Problems
Ten Companies Representing Multiple Markets to Show StarFabric-Based Products and Product Plans at This Week's Bus&Board/2002
LONG BEACH, Calif. - January 22, 2002 - StarGen, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, today announced that it will demonstrate its production-ready StarFabric technology, a high-speed, point-to-point switched backplane and chassis-to-chassis interconnect solution, at this week's Bus&Board/2002Conference taking place at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach, Calif. In addition, nine other companies, including Artesyn Technologies, CG-Mupac, ITOX Inc., I-Bus, Bustronic, DY4/Ixthos, Kaparal, and Hybricon Corporation will be showing product plans based on the StarFabric technology, and in some cases providing live demos of their products at the conference.
StarGen's SG 1010 StarFabric Switch and SG 2010 StarFabric Bridge together provide communication equipment OEMs a real-world option for building high-speed, scalable and highly reliable systems, while providing an easy migration path from current PCI and CompactPCI based architectures. The SG 1010 StarFabric Switch is a high-speed, cascadable serial switch that provides 30 Gbps switching capacity with six ports and is a component of the StarFabric open switch fabric architecture. The SG 2010 StarFabric PCI Bridge provides access to the switch fabric from existing PCI standard buses. These devices can be combined in a wide variety of configurations to create cost-effective, small-scale systems to extremely large room scale equipment with hundreds of end points.
"Delivering on our promise to provide a practical and cost-effective solution for next generation equipment, we are pleased to announce that StarFabric is being used today to solve some of the real world issues currently facing systems designers," said Tracy Richardson, president of StarGen, Inc. "The significant number of companies from all different market segments here at Bus&Board demonstrating their StarFabric product plans, illustrates the growing momentum behind the technology and the need for practical, easy-to-adopt solutions now. "
The PICMG 2.17 StarFabric CompactPCI Specification is being developed to provide system-level standardization of StarFabric technology within the current CompactPCI environment.
"There is enormous opportunity in voice enabled enterprise and Internet applications. Voice services and applications can now be added to existing network and wireless infrastructure, and they require the cost effective, powerful, distributed computing architectures ideally addressed by StarFabric." said Steve Dow, CEO of Channel Access, a Carlo Gavazzi Group Company. "We intend to be a leader in this high growth market by leveraging StarFabric technology and the PICMG 2.17 specifications."
Eric Gulliksen, an analyst at Venture Development Corporation, commented, "Out of all the high speed interconnect solutions being talked about today, the StarFabric technology appears to have the most complete roadmap. By being able to deliver useable solutions to the market now, StarFabric should be well positioned to be implemented broadly in the CompactPCI environment and beyond."
StarFabric is being deployed within the traditional communications market, as well as in a wide variety of embedded applications with design-in plans currently happening in communication access systems, digital convergence platforms, distributed computing applications, and PCI bus expansion. StarFabric includes robust support for loosely-coupled, distributed computing with support for independent address domains, sophisticated message passing capabilities, memory protection schemes, and advanced interrupt handling. The ten companies showing their StarFabric-based product plans at Bus&Board this week, cross a variety of markets.
"StarFabric enables entirely new system configuration options which can address a broad cross section of applications," said John Matlock, senior vice president at ITOX, Inc. "ITOX selected StarFabric for its Star Cluster product line of scalable PC, server, and communication equipment platforms because it enables three dimensional system scaling, provides compatibility to PCI and H.110, and provides TDM clock synchronization through the fabric, allowing us to provide leadership solutions to our customers."
The Bus&Board/2002 Conference, which is being held January 21-22 in Long Beach, Calif., is focused on VMEbus, CompactPCI, PCI, PC104, motherboards, and mezzanine cards for embedded applications. Co-developed by VITA and PICMG, the program includes educational seminars from market research analysts, editors from the major electronic publications, and industry experts from military, industrial, and telecom market segments. Designed to meet the needs of system designers who are building systems with bus-boards and board-level technologies, Bus&Board/2002 aims to provide an understanding of the technology transitions, market trends, and innovations in this rapidly growing technology segment. For more information, please visit www.busandboard.com.
Last week, StarGen announced the launch of the StarGen 3010 TDM to StarFabric Bridge, a new, high-capacity bridge chip suited for such next-generation applications as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) gateways, voice over broadband (VoBB) systems, wireless base stations, and other high-density communications network equipment. The StarGen 3010 will be made available later this year.
About StarGen
StarGen (www.StarGen.com) is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed a new switched interconnect technology for the communication and embedded industries. The technology benefits vendors of carrier and enterprise communication platforms for next generation voice, data, and video networks. Early adopters include those building open standards based access/edge equipment such as media over packet gateways, convergence switches, broadband access concentrators, wireless base stations, cable headend systems, edge routers, and remote access concentrators. Many embedded applications benefit from StarGen's distributed multi-processing features. StarGen's technology provides a dramatic increase in equipment performance, reliability, and Quality of Service while providing for the retention of existing standards-based hardware and software investment. StarGen is headquartered in Marlborough Massachusetts.
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