ASI SIG Releases Standards-Based Advanced Switching Interconnect Specification; PCI Express*-based Technology Offers Alternative to Proprietary Data Fabrics.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2004 The Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. SIG) today released Version released version - release 1.0 of the Advanced Switching interconnect specification based on PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. * interconnect technology, enabling makers of communications, storage and embedded building blocks to begin implementing the standards-based, modular technology into their next-generation designs. "Makers of the building blocks, such as chips and software, for complete solutions can now begin next-generation designs in earnest, for the first time taking advantage of the cost and time to market benefits of a standards-based modular approach," said Rajeev Kumar Rajeev Kumar ()–famous Activist and Educationist from New Delhi, India. Founder of MASS Movement and Action for Social Services-(मास). Major Projects : (1) SARLA – He is running a chain of Sewing centres in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, , president of the ASI SIG and Advanced Switching initiatives manager, Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . "A number of companies are already announcing plans for design tools, test equipment, and software and hardware to support the design process." Kumar said he expects the first completed building blocks based on Advanced Switching to be on the market early next year and complete systems by the second half of 2005. Advanced Switching is a standards-based switched-interconnect and data-fabric architecture based on PCI Express technology for connecting system boards and components in future generations of communications, storage and embedded products. It offers developers a broad array of advanced communications features that traditionally would have required costly, time-consuming proprietary solutions. "Advanced Switching specification marks the first time the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. can step away from the cumbersome and costly practice of developing proprietary methods for connecting processors and system boards for each design," said Kumar. "Advanced Switching opens the door to a modular era in communications equipment in which standards-based modular building Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. blocks streamline the design process with its promise of reduced costs and quicker time to market." New Complementary Protocols The ASI SIG also announced completion of four subsidiary protocol interface specifications, which complement the Advanced Switching standard by providing capabilities that traditionally have required development of proprietary switch fabrics. The first, PCI Express encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. , describes the standard tunneling scheme for moving PCI Express packets through an Advanced Switching backplane. The three other protocols establish methods for moving data in specific applications. Simple load/store is an extension based on the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). load/store method for transporting data in many communications applications that require specific addresses. Simple queuing is a method that utilizes queues, instead of specific addresses, for moving messages between sender and receiver, for storage and other communications applications. Socket data transport enables large blocks of data to be moved directly between memory devices without burdening a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. in a manner similar to Remote Direct Memory Access, also for storage and other communications applications. The ASI SIG plans to introduce these protocol interface specifications later this quarter. About Advanced Switching Advanced Switching uses the same physical and link layers as the PCI Express architecture to achieve widespread interoperability and availability of technology. At the transaction layer, Advanced Switching provides an array of specialized communications features, including high-availability functions, peer-to-peer and multicast networking, congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and system management, scalability, and support for virtually any networking protocol. This optimized transaction layer provides equipment developers the flexibility to create value-added features into communications, storage and embedded solutions. Together, PCI Express and Advanced Switching technologies ensure broadly available building blocks and tools that enable component and equipment makers to reuse technology across multiple products, reduce design costs and shorten the time it takes to get products to market. About the ASI SIG The ASI SIG is a nonprofit collaborative trade organization chartered with providing a switched fabric interconnect standard for the communications and compute industries. The ASI SIG provide the highest quality technical and marketing support to enable the marketplace to a create unique and interoperable set of building blocks for the communication, storage, blade server A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and and embedded platforms. The ASI SIG board of directors includes Agere, Alcatel, Huawei, Intel, Siemens, Vitesse and Xilinx. Additional information on the Advanced Switching specifications and membership in the ASI SIG can be found at http://www.asi-sig.org. *PCI Express is a trademark of PCI-SIG. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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