Liqid and Broadcom Deliver Turnkey PCIe 4.0 Fabric Platform

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sept. 4, 2020 -- Liqid, provider of the composable infrastructure platform, announced a collaboration with global Cloud and Data Center infrastructure leader Broadcom to deliver the first PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen 4.0 Fabric Reference Design Kit (RDK). To further drive data center adoption of the high-speed PCIe connectivity, the two companies have built a managed-fabric solution powered by Liqid Command Center orchestration software and Broadcom PEX88000 PCIe Gen 4.0 switches to enable research and development departments to quickly evaluate and accelerate deployment of Gen 4.0 solutions in the marketplace for next generation data center applications. "Edge and 5G computing, AI ML workloads, high-value HPC applications, and composable infrastructure deployments are all use cases that benefit significantly from high-speed data transfers and low latency PCIe Gen 4.0 solutions," said Jas Tremblay, Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Storage Group, Broadcom. "Through our joint efforts, Liqid and Broadcom empower companies to deliver PCIe Gen 4.0 solutions that offer scalable performance, composable architecture, ease of management, and superior power efficiency for applications driving innovation across vertical markets." PCIe Gen 4.0 doubles the throughput over Gen 3.0, achieving bandwidth of up to 256 GT/s per port, substantially reducing transfer time for big data applications.