RapidFabric: Multicast and Encapsulation Specifications Revealed Free Live Webcast

August 31, 2004:
8:00am PT / 11:00am ET/ 15:00 GMT  

The RapidIO Trade Association will announce the approval and member availability of two new additions to the RapidFabric extensions: the Multicast Specification and the Encapsulation portion of the Data Streaming Specification. This free live webcast describes the multicast and encapsulation implementations in the RapidIO architecture, enabling you to see their benefits to system design.

The new Multicast specification addresses fast-growing applications such as video on demand and community gaming by improving bandwidth utilization across networks enabling a single RapidIO packet to serve multiple destination devices. It reduces clutter on the network by preventing applications from having to transmit a separate copy of data for each individual receiving device.

The Data Streaming (Encapsulation) specification enables streamlined interworking among network protocols. The Data Streaming packet has been designed with extremely efficient headers ranging from 20-36 bits for 32-256 bytes of payload. This minimal level of overhead makes Data Streaming the ideal transport protocol for systems that must interwork between CSIX, SPI, ATM, Ethernet and other ubiquitous protocols. Data Streaming also allows the system designer to select an MTU size for segmentation and reassembly that best fits the application specific requirements for latency and throughput.

These RapidFabric extensions seamlessly interoperate with the existing RapidIO specification, and allow OEMs to replace proprietary interconnects with an open, industry-standard fabric, reducing R&D costs while increasing time-to-market in high-speed data plane applications.

This free live webcast will be useful for those developers who are planning to use or who are considering using RapidIO technology in their designs. It will last for a full hour with Q&A. There are no prerequisites for this webcast.

Go here to attend the free live webcast.