Blended into the demonstration is PLX’S revolutionary USB Duet™ cabling-connectivity technology, which enables two or more PCs to use the USB bus to quickly and economically share files and transfer disk drives' contents at speeds up to 480Mbps/sec. In the IDF demonstration, USB Duet streams video from an Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC)-platform computer to the main PC’s video card. USB Duet technology provides the simplest PC connectivity for the emerging UMPC platform, while also allowing any USB Duet-enabled PC to back up files by using another computer as a secondary storage device.
“PLX’s demonstrations at IDF highlight the expanding applicability of PCI Express in video and other applications,” said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corp. “Those applications are emerging across a broad spectrum of market segments.”
IDF presents a forum for attendees to see both established and recently introduced PLX interconnect devices. The event marks the first public appearance of PLX’s new PEX 8548 switch, announced yesterday (see plxtech.com/about/news/pr/?y=2006&rel=0925). The PEX 8548 is the industry’s 48-lane, nine-port switch, and is the inaugural device in the company’s third-generation PCIe switching architecture. Its target applications include Intel-based servers, backplanes and router switch fabrics.
PLX is among the industry's first suppliers to announce support, development efforts and actual silicon for PCIe technology. The company began sampling its ExpressLane devices in 2004, and nine ExpressLane switches and bridges now are either sampling or in full production -- more than all other vendors’ PCIe-interconnect devices combined. These devices have been designed into hundreds of systems in virtually all technology market segments.
PLX has been developing I/O interconnect solutions since 1986.
About PLX Technology
PLX Technology, Inc., (plxtech.com), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., USA, is the leading supplier of PCI Express and standard I/O interconnect silicon to the communications, server, storage, embedded-control, and consumer industries.
PLX, ExpressLane and USB Duet are trademarks of PLX Technology, Inc., which may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other product names that appear in this material are for identification purposes only and are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
