Ethernet switch and SBC in one module claims VICTORY

Small, modular computing is forcing a new look at system architectures. Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s VPX3-671 module is a great example. Curtiss-Wright claims that the VPX3-671 Ethernet Switch and single board computer (SBC) is the industry’s first single-slot commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) module solution for integrating the essential networking elements needed to implement the U.S. Army’s VICTORY standard. The lightweight, rugged, and compact VPX3-671 provides a line replaceable module (LRM) that features a core subset of advanced network switch and computing resources approach for implementing VICTORY, the U.S. Army’s mandated approach for modernizing ground vehicle networks. System integrators can quickly and cost-effectively embed the networking and vehicle management processing capabilities needed to modernize today’s tactical ground vehicles. The VPX3-671 delivers a fully-featured 12-port managed Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch that is tested to be compliant with the VICTORY specification as an Infrastructure Switch. Flipping the architectural model, the VPX3-671’s 1.2 GHz Freescale QorIQ dual-core P2020-based general purpose SBC is optional and is installed as a daughtercard.