Bladecenter I/O Expansion Board enhances processing options.
Press Release Summary:
Offered as quad 10G Ethernet (CFFh) IO expansion card, PARPRO INB-400 features 2 Intel® 82599 Dual 10Gbe controllers connected to HS22 or HS23 BladeCenter® host via x8 Gen2 PCIe interface. XAUI outputs from Intel 82599s are connected to midplane connectors per BladeCenter IO expansion card specification. Functionality provides bandwidth-intensive, content-rich applications with additional I/O functions or processing expansion options for network enterprise and data center organizations.
Original Press Release:
PARPRO I/O Expansion Board for BladeCenter®
Improves performance and extends the life of existing system
Carlsbad, CA – PARPRO Corporation, a leading design solutions and manufacturing services company, announces its latest addition to the I/O card family, the PARPRO INB-400. The INB-400 is a Quad 10G Ethernet (CFFh) IO Expansion card for the BladeCenter® Platform. This card provides bandwidth intensive, content rich applications with additional I/O functions or processing expansion options required by many network enterprise and data center organizations today.
Designed for HS22 and HS23 BladeCenter hosts, the INB-400 features two Intel® 82599 Dual 10Gbe controllers, each connected to the BladeCenter host through a x8 Gen2 PCIe interface. The XAUI outputs from the Intel 82599’s are connected to the midplane connectors per the BladeCenter IO expansion card specification.
The PARPRO INB-400 is an example of a product that was developed to support the needs of an existing BladeCenter based solution. In particular, this product was designed with US based engineering to support customers with sensitive markets, providing a unique feature set and delivering a low cost, quick turn solution, prolonging the life of the system. While PARPRO is best known for high performance application-specific platform design, this type of hardware innovation demonstrates PARPRO’s expertise in other less engineering intensive solutions. PARPRO is an agile supplier of critical embedding computing products committed to rapid application development and deployment of customized products.
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About PARPRO
PARPRO is a full service design & manufacturing company with an emphasis on ODM solutions. We offer a comprehensive engineering-rich hardware systems with low-to-high volume manufacturing and integration/test capabilities, and pride ourselves on delivering simple to complex solutions making our manufacturing offerings competitive at virtually any volume and with any sourcing strategy. We serve customers in the aerospace, gaming, telecommunications and industrial markets providing time savings and cost optimization by minimizing margin stacks throughout the value chain.
