Redesign the
Movement of Data
Unique new data exchange methods for a breakthrough in data security and energy consumption unleashing exponential new computer processing capabilities
Understanding Our Innovative Approach
Discover the innovation behind crossPORT iX's revolutionary data exchange approach.
Data exchanges today are like exchanging letters in the mail. Most network switches operate like national postal services, with IP addresses instead of zip or postal codes. Each step includes data collection, sorting, routing and then delivery. Network switching makes the Internet work - enabling every piece of mail to be delivered pretty much anywhere.
But imagine you are moving house. Would you move furniture, clothes, electronics, valuables and food by postal service? You could box and label everything and trucks can be sent to pick up these items. But it would be very inefficient. This is what AI systems do today when they move terabytes and terabytes of data through complex learning models and across multiple processors. The biggest data switches now have over 52 billion transistors in highly complex arrangements trying to collect, sort, address and deliver data. Still, even the most advanced solutions remain highly inefficient with 30 to 50% of time and effort being lost to simply moving data.
crossPORT technologies build direct, secure and private data pipelines between senders and receivers. Scaling to millions of systems, crossPORT uses the intelligence of connected systems to create, and release, circuits across passive digital fabrics as required. Data can then flow through these private pathways without additional effort or interruption.
Direct Uninterrupted Data FlowsTraditional Network Designs
Traditional Networks depend on powerful Switch equipment to move data between connected systems. As such, switches collect, route, deliver and otherwise control data in movement between endpoint systems.
With few exceptions, switches merge multiple flows into a single serialized packet stream. To ‘fit’ large data demands into a limited shared stream, they often use buffers to temporarily hold data until space in the stream is available. Latency spikes (extended delays) result when multiple data inputs overrun data buffers. Routing logic in the switch determines the priority and delivery of data across local and remote destinations. Still, the work of switches is immense. Switches, therefore are extremely powerful, and energy demanding, computers in their own right.
Importantly, once data reaches a network port on a connected system, control over data moves to intermediary Switches making data Security a real issue!
- Switches are powerful and energy demanding servers.
- Multiple flows converge on the same switch output port.
- Excess traffic leads to buffering and delays.
- Data Security issues as switches manage all data in transit.
- Latency spikes and high tail latency.
Inefficient Network Scaling
Traditional networks have proven to be exceptionally costly, complex and difficult to scale to meet data Center Demands.
Numerous and ongoing activities try to optimize network growth and configuration. Each incurs significant cost, complexity and energy challenges while adding to data delivery delays.
The largest and newest switches support no more than 512 connections. As a result, traditional networks need additional tiers of switching equipment to connect larger numbers of systems. Often implementing 4 to 6 layers of switches, each switching layer introduces delay (latency), cost, management complexity and energy consumption. Data Centers must provision from 200 to 500% of actual available bandwidth in order to connect large numbers of servers. Software Defined Networks help, but add to complexity, and costs. The result is that the newest 800 Gbps connections are shared; supporting numerous 10 and 40 Gbps connections.
Growing Network Complexity
As networks get larger and more complex, they must continuously manage the flow of data across five to ten switches. To work around all this, methods have evolved to manage congestion using flow control, prioritization, connection scheduling and adaptive routing.
Flow control slows data, adds to energy consumption and complexity to squeeze more data out of limited and shared bandwidth. Prioritizationselectively slows some less important data to ensure the most important data transfers as quickly as possible. Scheduling is used by the most advanced network switches to find an optimized route that minimizes transfer latency; the result is that data is actually delayed. Adaptive routing steers data from one set of switches to another via a Software Defined Network.
In each of these methods, additional software and logic are added the network switches themselves, driving further complexity, cost and energy consumption.
Introducing crossPORT iX Switch Fabrics
Scale to millions of servers with lower latency and lower total power consumption.
crossPORT's revolutionary Intelligent Exchange delivers up to 300% more bandwidth compared to traditional architectures. It also delivers more server connections. Innovative non-blocking interconnection fabrics ensure zero contention and reduce buffering to absolute minimums. Resulting straight-through data transmissions over dedicated circuits deliver staggering improvements in latency and energy use well beyond 1,000X for the largest implementations.
Ultra-high-Radix, Ultra-Low Latency Fabrics
Supporting direct interconnections between 256 to 10,000 ports in a single switching node, crossPORT’s passive switching fabric scales to millions of servers with sub microsecond performance.
Data Bottlenecks Solved
- 4X Bandwidth over traditional switching
- Zero Contention Traffic eliminates data waiting for circuits.
- Zero Buffering ensures no tail latency, fastest workload completions.
Reduced Management Overheads
Without complex routing, processing or prioritization in interconnection hardware, crossPORT solutions require less administration and are instantly re-configurable; ensuring bandwidth is provisioned as and when it is required.
Near-Zero Energy
Straight-through data circuits also mean almost zero power demands. Eliminating more than 99.9% of traditional switch power requirements, crossPORT delivers an eco-friendly future while increasing performance and throughput.
Secure by Default.
With crossPORT’s Intelligent Exchange technologies, network vulnerabilities are a thing of the past. Patented designs keep systems and data secure by default. Systems cannot see, nor reach any other system until each participating system is authenticated and approved. Compromised systems can be quickly identified and isolated, ensuring a secure compute environment. Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint data circuits are created as required.
The result is a data security posture that is completely flipped to “Secure by Default“ - providing selective and controlled access to data.
Connections are established only after endpoints are verified, using a vast array of single or multi-factor authentication options.
Connections exist only while in use, or specifically required.Addresses are private and transitory, ensuring only cooperating participants have access to data being exchanged.
Private and Independent data circuits provide complete data isolationand control to meet the most stringent security and privacy demands.
Perfecting Proven Technologies Today & Tomorrow.
crossPORT implements proven protocols, connectors, and platforms in a perfect new way.
Whether your desired solution is wireless, optical or wired, using Ethernet, InfiniBand, PCIe, USB, CAN-Bus or any other data protocol, our novel new approach opens up unparalleled possibility for the lowest latency, lowest energy computing. In fact, we even make it possible to use all of these technologies at once in a single, highly flexible configuration.
A breakthrough in digital design, this new method of data exchange is the only platform fully enabling Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and independent learning systems of the future.
HOW IT WORKS is truly defined, not by what you chose to implement, but how it is implemented.
Contact us today to see how crossPORT can transform your digital world
