With more than 9 years of experience as the originator of the Physical Layer Switch, Curtiss-Wright Controls created the VLX2500 Series VME-based 6U 8x8 and 16x16 Physical Layers Switches. The Physical Layers Switches allow non-blocking, multi-protocol physical layer switching to VME systems and applications. Any input can be connected to any output at speeds up to 3.125 Gb/s. With no impact on throughput speed, almost any digital signal can be routed through the VLX2500.
The base VLX2500 switch is a single 6U VME64x card with eight ports. With the addition of an 8-port expansion card, the switch provides sixteen ports in two VME slots. Each port input provides an option of clock reconditioning to reduce jitter.
This provides the ideal situation for the switch to reconfigure in both lab environments to avoid impacting the signal during tests, and where signal integrity is critical to overall performance in deployed environments.
VLX2500 Series VME-based 6U 8x8 & 16x16 Physical Layer Switches Features
- Command Line Interface configuration commands sent via the VME bus or the RS-232 port
- LED Indicators include: 'Signal Detect' and 'Transmitter On' for each SFP and 'Power On' and 'Heartbeat' for the systemSelect 16, 24 or 32-bit VME bus addressing
- Built-in Self Test
- Up to 16 non-blocking SFP transceiver ports (with optional 8-port expansion card)
- 3.125 Gbps/port baud rate
- 50 Gbps total bandwidth for 8 ports and 100 Gbps for 16 ports
- Point-to-Point (full or half duplex), multicast (1 to several), and loop (with auto loop feature) topologies.
- Optional bypass of clock conditioning circuitry for each port
- Hot-swappable SFP transceivers
- Ruggedized version available
