Drut Fabric Interface Card 1000 (FIC 1000)
First-generation photonic fabric card designed for PCIe Gen 3
- Full Height / Full Length PCIe Board (Gen 3 )
- 4xQSFP Pluggable Optical Cages – supports 25G, 100G QSFP28 CWDM, 100G PSM4, (4x100G Lambdas)
- Capable of connecting the node to 1-4 possible Photonic Resource Units (PRUs)
- Serdes speeds into the PXC Fabric is configurable. For example, Serdes can be 12.5G, 25G, 50G, 100G
- Design intent is to be inserted into server (i.e. node)
- On board FPGA implements Drut fabric software and signal encoding
FIC 1000 Use Case Diagram
This diagram illustrates how the iFIC 1000 is connected to the fabric and the existing network hierarchy.
The FIC 1000 can be used as the interface module, to build a Drut disaggregated photonic fabric.
