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Arapahoe is ready

By Nicholas Cravotta -- EDN, 11/13/2003

The Arapahoe Working Group of the PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group) has completed development of its Advanced Switching specification, a scalable switched-interconnect and data-fabric architecture for intercon-necting system boards and components. The group based the spec on the PCI-Express architecture, which works at the transaction layer to provide flexibility for adding functions and which defines specialized features, such as protocol agnosticism, quality of service, peer-to-peer and multicast communications, enhanced high-availability, and congestion and system management.

The group has also formed the ASI-SIG (Advanced Switching Interconnect SIG), to which it will this year transfer the specification. Board members of the new SIG include Agere, Alcatel, Intel, Siemens, Vitesse, and Xilinx.

Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group, www.asi-sig.org.

Arapahoe Working Group, PCI-SIG, www.pcisig.com.