Apart from the standardized use with the SCSI interface, several vendors have also used VHDCI connectors for other types of interfaces: •
Nvidia: for an external
PCI Express 8-lane interconnect, and used in
Quadro Plex VCS and in
Quadro NVS 420 as a display port connector •
ATI Technologies: on the
FireMV 2400 to convey two
DVI and two
VGA signals on a single connector, and ganging two of these connectors side by side in order to allow the FireMV 2400 to be a low-profile quad display card. The
Radeon X1950 XTX Crossfire Edition also used a pair of the connectors to grant more inter-card bandwidth than the PCI Express bus allowed at the time for
Crossfire. •
AMD: Some Visiontek variants of the
Radeon HD 7750 use a VHDCI connector alongside a Mini
DisplayPort to allow a 5 (breakout to 4
HDMI+1 mDP) display
Eyefinity array on a low profile card. VisionTek also released a similar
Radeon HD 5570, though it lacked a Mini DisplayPort. •
Juniper Networks: for their 12- and 48-port 100BASE-TX PICs (physical interface cards). The cable connects to the VHDCI connector on the PIC on one end, via an
RJ-21 connector on the other end, to an RJ-45
patch panel. •
Cisco: 3750
StackWise stacking cables •
National Instruments: on their high-speed digital I/O cards. •
AudioScience uses VHDCI to carry multiple analog
balanced audio and digital
AES/EBU audio streams, and clock and
GPIO signals. ==See also==