As the industry continues to move to PCI Express as the ubiquitous IO interconnect standard, the need to support or add additional high performance PCI Express devices to servers and systems increases. Additionally, the highest level of system design flexibility requires the ability to locate IO remotely at significant distance. Dolphin’s expansion products meet these requirements without the distance restrictions of existing expansion solutions. By supporting fiber optics Dolphin breaks through the 5-10 meter limitations of copper cable solutions, significantly increasing the distance between host and I/O devices.
Dolphin’s initial expansion solutions consist of the DXH510 Host Adapter and the DXE410 PCI Express Expansion Chassis. The Dolphin DXH510 is a high performance host adapter that supports 20 Gbps x8 PCI Express. Equipped with two 10 Gbps external cable connections, the DXH510 connects a single host to one or two expansion chassis via copper or fiber optic cabling. The DXH510 is a low profile standard PCI Express form factor card, enabling its use in low cost servers and workstations. It supports the Linux, Windows XP and Vista operating systems. This low profile PCI Express card installed in the host system provides the high performance connection to downstream PCI Express devices up to 300 meters away.
