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Ashburn, Va. – September 30, 2013 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls, has introduced the newest member of its recently announced industry-leading Fabric40™ family of extremely high-speed 40 Gbps OpenVPX™ modules. The new VPX6-6802 Fabric40™ Switch is the first rugged, high performance 6U OpenVPX (VITA 65) switch card to provide support for 10/20/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR-10 InfiniBand® (IB) connectivity to OpenVPX™ systems. Systems built using the VPX6-6802 and complementary Curtiss-Wright Fabric40 system elements will deliver over 2x the performance of previous generation SRIO Gen-2-based systems and 4x the performance of 10 GbE-based systems. The unprecedented high bandwidth interconnect data rates supported by the VPX6-6802 are ideal for the compute intensive processing elements used in HPEC and ISR embedded systems for demanding defense and aerospace applications such as SIGINT, Radar processing and beamforming.
“Our newest Fabric40™ module, the VPX6-6802, brings the industry’s fastest Ethernet and InfiniBand® centralized switching to the most demanding embedded military applications,” said Lynn Bamford, senior vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions “Curtiss-Wright is the only embedded system vendor to offer end-to-end 40 Gbps system elements, including DSP engines, FPGA cards, SBCs and Network Switches. Even better, their performance simply blows the doors off of competing open architecture offerings. We’ve doubled the performance of our earlier 20 Gbps cards while boosting interoperability, eliminating signal integrity and integration design risks, and speeding the development schedules for critical HPEC and ISR applications.”
About the VPX6-6802
The fully rugged VPX6-6802 is available in air-, conduction-, and air flow-through (AFT)-cooled configurations. Designed for use with today’s highest speed switched fabrics, the board provides a combined Data Plane and Control Plane high-performance switch for 6U VPX systems. The board’s full bandwidth, low-latency interconnects eliminate board-to-board data bottlenecks.
The VPX6-6802’s Data Plane fabric supports both GbE and IB protocols at multiple port speeds, including 10G, 20G and 40Gbps. It supports up to 20 Data Plane fabric ports on the backplane, with an additional 10/20/40 Gbps fabric Ethernet or IB port, and a 1000Base-T Ethernet port available on the front panel (air-cooled configuration only).
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The VPX6-6802 supports an independent Control Plane fabric with GbE links, and up to 22 ports to the backplane, as well as an additional 1000Base-T port available on the front panel. Two (2) 10 GbE ports are provided on the board’s front panel for switch expansion or for Control Plane backbone connections. Its managed Layer-2 Ethernet feature-set ensures maximum performance and flexibility.
Multi-Protocol Support on Curtiss-Wright Fabric40 Products
Until now, system designers have been locked into using a single technology fabric in their HPEC system designs. Now, the higher-level hardware functionality built into our Fabric40 enabled modules makes support for interconnect fabrics “agnostic”. For the first time system designers have the option to select the fabric protocols, whether 10 or 40 Gbps Ethernet or the 10/20/40 Gbps IB, that best suit their application’s unique requirements.
VPX6-6802 Key Performance Features:
• 6U OpenVPX Centralized Switch
o Data Plane fabric
• Supports GbE and IB protocols with speeds up to 40 Gpbs
• Supports per-port speeds of 10G, 20G and 40G
• Supports single lane ports up to 10G
• 19 or 20 Data Plane ports to the VPX backplane + 2 additional ports and one 1000Base-T Ethernet port to the front panel (AC only)
o Control Plane Ethernet fabric
• Provides 16 or 20 1000Base-X (SerDes) and 2x 1000Base-T Gigabit ports to the back + 2x 10GbE and one 1000Base-T port to the front panel (AC only)
• Supports VLANs, L2 multicast, IGMP snooping, and QoS
• Supports 16U20F and 20U19F OpenVPX profiles
• Supports IPMI
• Simplifies implementation of scalable high-performance centralized DSP clusters for small, medium and large systems
• Supports dual independent Data Plane and Control Plane fabrics
• Onboard management processor
• Spanning Trees, Link Aggregation (LA)
• Jumbo frame support to 9KB
• 6U VPX form factor with optional 2LM covers
• Air-cooled, conduction-cooled, and AFT configurations available
Fabric40 Products
The VPX6-6802 complements the complete family of Curtis-Wright Fabric40 products, including:
• The CHAMP-AV9 Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engine: dual 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700EQ
• The CHAMP-FX4 FPGA Engine: the industry’s highest performance 6U COTS, FPGA engine with three on-board Xilinx™ Virtex®-7 FPGAs
The Fabric40™ Program
Curtiss-Wright’s Fabric40 products deliver the industry’s first complete end-to-end system approach for integrating the latest 40 Gbps high-speed fabrics into customer applications. Fabric40 products are the industry’s first COTS modules to offer end-to-end system support for both 10 and 40 Gbps Ethernet fabrics as well as supporting the full range of IB fabric data rates:
• 10 Gbps IB SDR
• 20 Gbps DDR
• 40 Gbps QDR and FDR-10
Fabric40 products effectively double the interconnect rates currently supported by Curtiss-Wright’s industry-leading 20 Gbps interconnect-based system elements. To ensure that processing engines and CPUs are not burdened by high-speed data transfers, all Fabric40 modules support Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) in both GbE and IB modes. The complete Fabric40 ecosystem also includes middleware software enablement such as IPC and OFED/MPI interfaces, which are optimized to support next-generation 40 Gbps systems.
Our Fabric40 Program ensures that all aspects of this new data fabric technology are optimally configured to work together, which greatly enhances interoperability and reduces our customers’ integration risks and development time.
Fabric40, Signal Integrity and End-to-End Interoperability
Curtiss-Wright has developed its entire line of Fabric40 products with highly optimized Signal Integrity design rules to ensure that high-speed signals are not compromised when interconnecting board-to-board through backplanes.
Complete Fabric40 End-to-End Solutions
Curtiss-Wright Fabric40 system elements provide a complete system solution, including SBCs, DSP and FPGA engines, GPGPU processors, network switches and backplanes. This ensures that system integrators can be confident that their entire next-generation system will work together reliably from end-to-end. Curtiss-Wright will continue to announce additional products supporting the Fabric40 Program.
Pricing and Additional Information
Please contact the factory for information on pricing. Click here for more information on the VPX6-6802.
Sales & Editorial Contacts
For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions products or services, contact John Wranovics, public relations director, Curtiss-Wright Controls, Tel: (925) 640-6402; Email: [email protected].
Sales inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Jerri-Lynne Charbonneau, Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions, Tel: (613) 254-5112; Fax: (613) 599-7777; e-mail: [email protected].
For additional information on Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions please visit: www.curtisswrightds.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions is a long established technology leader in the development of rugged electronic modules and systems for defense applications. Defense Solutions serves as a technology and integration partner to its customers, providing a full range of advanced, highly engineered solutions from modular open systems approaches to fully custom optimized solutions. Our unmatched capabilities and product breadth span from industry standard based COTS modules to complete electronic subsystems. The company’s modules and systems are currently deployed in a wide range of demanding defense & aerospace applications including C4ISR systems, unmanned subsystems, mission computing, fire control, turret stabilization, and recording & storage solutions. Additionally, the company’s broad engineering capabilities combine systems, software, electrical, and mechanical design expertise with comprehensive program management and a broad range of life-cycle support services. For more information visit www.curtisswrightds.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Curtiss-Wright Controls is the Control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
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