FX400 Curtiss-Wright Dual-Channel (DC) Fibre Channel PMC Card

The Curtiss-Wright FX400 Dual-Channel (DC) Fibre Channel PMC Cards are high-performance host buse adapters (HBA) ideally suited for demanding high-bandwidth data communications and storage applications. The FX400 series of products provide support for SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), eliminating the need to deal directly with the FC interface. In addition, the FX4000 DC cards feature two separate high-performance RISC I/O engines to minimize host CPU overhead. The superior communications and interconnect capabilities of the FC standard are maximized by Curtiss-Wright Controls' FX400 DC cards.

The FX400 DC cards incorporate the functionality of two independent FC 4.25 Gbps channels on a single HBA. This compact design minimizes the number of required host comput slots, while providing the performance of two separate HBAs. As a result, an efficient Fibre Channel (FC) system is established using only a minimal number of Single Board Computers (SBC) or PMC slots.

Each channel on the FX400 DC card is capable of sustaining a 400 MBps transfer rate, and up to 800 MBps transfer rate in full duplex, thus achievning 1600 MBps in combined throughput. In addition, both channels on the FX400 DC card support 1.0625 Gbps, 2.125 Gbps, and 4.25 Gbps rates, automatically detecting and switching to the appropriate rate using Auto-Speed Negotiation. This feature enables the FX400 cards to interoperate with existing FC devices at 1.0625 Gbps and 2.125 Gbps, and provides seamless transition to higher performance 4.25 Gbps devices.