Obsidian Plans 400G InfiniBand for the WAN

Obsidian Strategics, a privately-held company based in Canada that offers InfiniBand products featuring range extension, routing and encryption, announced plans for a new platform that will take InfiniBand to 400 Gbps rates over WAN distances.

Obsidian's Longbow technology allows an InfiniBand fabric -- normally a short-range network (up to 17m) used in supercomputers and data centers -- to be securely extended via optical fiber over global distances. Obsidian also provides its Crossbow technology that enables very high performance routing of InfiniBand traffic between many separate subnets.

The company says InfiniBand overcomes the severe performance penalties incurred at high data rates by TCP/IP and Ethernet. In the spirit of its existing Longbow and Crossbow products operating at 40 Gbps, its 100G and 400G platforms will also provide enhanced InfiniBand features such as cryptographic and routing functions.

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