PLX ExpressLane Switches Help New NEC D-Series Storage Arrays Set New Standard for Scalability, Performance, High Availability
SUNNYVALE, Calif., USA and TOKYO, Japan – June 13, 2007 - PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), the leading global supplier of PCI Express® Switches and Bridges, and NEC Corp. (NASDAQ: NIPNY), a premier provider of IT, network and enterprise business solutions, today announced that PLX’s PCIe switches have been selected as the interconnect backbones in NEC Corp.’s recently announced D-Series scalable storage systems.
NEC designed into the D-Series several PLX® ExpressLane™ PCIe® switches with multiple lane and port configurations to help enhance ment of their systems performance and throughput. PLX switches offer the industry’s lowest power and latency along with a proven feature-rich architecture.
“NEC D-Series storage systems set a new industry standard with non-disruptive performance and are designed to meet the most demanding requirements of mission critical applications for scalability, availability and business continuity,” said Chikara Suzuki, assistant general manager, system storage products division, NEC Corporation Japan. “PLX’s PCI Express switch technology helped us to achieve superior performance in the complex interconnect backbone that the D-Series commands.”
“PLX interconnect technology has long played a significant role in storage -- from our original PCI bus controllers up through our PCI Express switches and bridges now enabling large-scale enterprise systems,” said David Raun, PLX vice president of marketing and business development. “NEC’s selection of PLX PCI Express switches for the D-Series reflects the strong commitment PLX has made to the enterprise-storage market, and how these two market leaders are successfully expanding the deployment of PCI Express.”
PLX Technology has the industry’s most advanced and successful lineup of PCIe switches and bridges, now totaling seventeen devices, most of which are in full production today. As the world’s leading provider of PCI Express interconnect silicon, the company deploys its proven third-generation architecture in its products. PLX now offers thirteen PCIe switches with wide-ranging lane and port configurations, as well as four PCIe bridges providing PCI, PCI-X and local-bus support. ExpressLane switches’ high-speed PCIe performance, flexible ports, wide range of lane counts, and Hot-Plug functions are enabling the D-Series storage arrays to achieve a new standard for scalability, performance and availability.
The D-Series storage arrays provide small to large enterprises with a cost-effective way to scale storage -- from 219 GB to 1.1 PB -- while the systems remain online. Their non-disruptive upgrades are made possible through the D-Series' revolutionary design -- the first to unify the characteristics of mid-range modular and enterprise storage architectures in a single system. Enterprises can also scale from 4 GB to 128 GB of cache, from 8 to 64 ports of 4Gbps Fibre Channel, and from 3 to 1,536 disk drives. This broad, non-disruptive scalability provides businesses with incredible flexibility in deploying a storage system for today's needs that can grow to meet tomorrow's demands.
For more information on PLX’s ExpressLane family of PCIe devices, go to http://www.plxtech.com/expresslane
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