Aprius system solutions amortize the capital and operating costs of high bandwidth network resources (network cards, storage controllers, network accelerators or security devices etc) across an entire rack of servers. This is particularly valuable where the cost of dedicating these resources to every server is high (e.g. 10GbE, CEE and SAN-based Storage). Furthermore, a significant reduction in cabling costs, power and cooling requirements can be achieved by reducing the number of separate, discrete cards required.

Investment protection and leverage
Aprius products are designed to simplify customer equipment choices, not complicate them. Aprius systems provide a transparent gateway to all PCI Express-based resources. Whether its network I/O, storage or compute resources, you can provision, manage, allocate or share (depending on resource type) resources across servers allowing reduced card and cabling costs.

Green
With a typical rack containing 20 servers, power savings exceeding 250W per rack can be achieved by eliminating just one interface card per server.

Scalability
The amount of traffic that must be managed by physical servers increases when multiple logical machines are deployed. Aprius products provide the hardware scalability and provisioning required for server resource demands in virtualized environments.

Flexibility
Cable routing and management within the rack and between adjacent racks is significantly improved with the use of a single, lightweight, cable which can be easily routed. The use of these cables in other high-volume applications ensures low cost and wide availability.

High Performance
Deliver 10, 20, or 40Gbps to and from each server via the ubiquitous PCIe slot. Use of the lightweight PCIe protocol delivers high speed and low latency without the need for protocol conversions within the local rack or blade system.