April 26, 2006 -- PLX Technology, Inc. has announced that the PLX ExpressLane PEX 8508 and PEX 8518 PCIe switches have been added to the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) Integrators List. At the recent PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop, the PEX 8508 and PEX 8518 each passed the PCI-SIG's rigorous interoperability and compliance tests to achieve spots on the distinguished list.

The ExpressLane PEX 8508 and PEX 8518 switches feature a cut-through architecture, non-transparent bridging and small package sizes that reduce power and space requirements. The PEX 8508 is an eight-lane PCIe switch with five highly configurable ports and low latency of 150ns, enabling a wider range of PCIe applications. As a five-port, 16-lane PCIe switching device, the PEX 8518 enables demanding applications such as storage systems to move data more efficiently between disk arrays and system memory.

The two devices join the several ExpressLane devices already on the Integrators List. The 16-lane PEX 8516 and 32-lane PEX 8532 switches were added to the list in 2005, as were forward- and reverse-mode versions of the PEX 8111 PCIe-to-PCI and PEX 8114 PCIe-to-PCI-X bridges. No other vendor has as many PCIe switches and bridges on the Integrators List.