PMC-642 Curtiss-Wright Network Interface Card

The Curtiss-Wright / DY-4 PMC-642 Fibre Channel Network Interface Card, the first member of the Channel 1 product family, provides a multi-protocol network solution enabling reliable, high-bandwith, low latency and low overhead communication in harsh environment, real-time, mission-critical system area networks. Performance guarantees are provided by native Virtual Interface (VI) architecture standard clustering hardware and the high bandwidth reliability of the Fibre Channel media.

The Curtiss-Wright / DY-4 PMC-642A1 Fibre Channel Network Interface Card is integrated with the SVME-179 PowerPC-based single board computer (SBC), the SVME/DMV-192 Pentium II-based SBC and the CHAMP family of digital signal processors to provide a unique high-speed network solution for mission-critical systems. PMC-642A1 provides the first implementation of the industry standard, lightweight, high performance Virtual Interface Architecture (VI) with the VxWorks real-time operating system. It also provides the first board-level solution for rugged Fibre Channel networking for harsh environment based computing. This combination of high-speed networking, lightweight protocol and rugged hardware makes PMC-642A1 the ideal mission-critical network solution.