These devices include the highest PCIe switch lane counts in the industry, at 96 and 80 lanes. These switches are PCI-SIG® PCIe 2.0 (Gen 2) specification-compliant with unique PLX-only features, including support for x16 port configurations, integrated non-transparency (NT) ports and a suite of performance-enhancing and system de-bug tools that empower system architects.

The PLX ExpressLane™ PEX 8696 (96 lanes, 24 ports), PEX 8680(80 lanes, 20 ports), PEX 8664(64 lanes, 16 ports) and PEX 8649(48 lanes, 12 ports) allow designers to build switch fabrics, redundant backplanes and complex storage applications without having to deal with high latency, high power consumption and bandwidth limitations associated with using multiple smaller switch chips.