Longbow C-Series switches transparently extend InfiniBand fabrics over up to 40km of dark fiber.
The Longbow C-Series devices report as two-port InfiniBand switches to the subnet manager — the IB fabrics at the two end-point locations unify into a single subnet. Longbow C-Series devices perform buffer credit extension at the link level, allowing InfiniBand to reach much farther than any other technology when combined with the 10Gbits/s serialized optical data stream physical layer solution. Longbow C-Series devices are managed through out-of-band 10/100 Ethernet ports.
Designed as a small-footprint solution, Longbow C-Series switches may be deployed in a desktop environment, or in a 19" rack, in which up to four units may be installed into an optional 1U shelf.
Since Longbow C-Series devices use a proprietary optical encoding, they must be deployed in pairs, connected by direct lightpaths.
