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PCI Express

PCI Express is a next generation PCI enhancement, and is here to stay. Express is now a serial bus inter-connect I/O technology, along with associated speed, protocol, and capabilities enhancements well beyond PCI and PCI-X. Express is an extension of the PCI Base Specification and maintains binary backwards compatibility with previous versions of the PCI and PCI-X Specification.

InfiniBand

InfiniBand is a new High Speed, Enterprise Wide, I/O technology. InfiniBand provides for high performance I/O used in networked computing platforms and defines the requirements for creating an InfiniBand network. The benefits of InfiniBand over existing technologies include more scale for growth, higher speed data transfer and easy integration with legacy systems.

USB

USB USB, Universal Serial Bus, has become the interface-of-choice for connecting peripherals to desktop computers and, increasingly, workstations and servers. It offers a flexible, localized serial I/O bus that allows connection of a dizzying number of external devices in many different topology configurations.

SAS

SAS SAS, Serial Attached SCSI, is slated to become the interface of choice to meet the ever-expanding storage requirements of the enterprise with speeds that can exceed the performance of ATA, SATA, SCSI and Fibre Channel. SAS is projected to be more cost effective than Fibre Channel and to be more reliable than SATA. SAS is designed to address the issues of increased capacity, improved throughput, form factor, scalabilty and reliability that are crucial to efficient growth and operation of enterprise data centers. SAS can enhance SCSI application through put and provide easy migration from or interoperate with SATA.

SATA

SATA Industry is predicting that Serial ATA will be the predominant storage interface, replacing the current interface, Parallel ATA. Design and development engineers, test engineers, production and manufacturing personnel, and others working with storage devices must have a detailed understanding of this new interface.