We've all heard the story. Parallel shared-bus architectures are showing their age, especially in communication designs pushing into the 2.5-Gbit/s range and beyond. As a result, designers are ...

The Cisco Silicon One portfolio now provides the highest bandwidth routing and switching silicon in a unified product portfolio, Cisco Fellow Rakesh Chopra tells CRN. Cisco Systems is introducing ...

Now nearing completion, the Advanced Switching (AS) specification brings switch-fabric speed and scalability to PCI. AS shares PCI Express Base's physical and data link layers, but new applications ...

DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Current parallel backplane technologies are rapidly being replaced with advanced ...

Momentum around the PCI Express specification is building in the communication sector. From broadband to wireless to networking applications, designers across the board are looking to implement these ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Routers and switches are filled with technologies, some ...