CROSSPORT is passionate about connecting edge systems with the fastest, most secure and most natural data exchange platforms.
By rethinking how data moves between intelligent systems, CROSSPORT eliminates everything that might slow data and needlessly consumer power.
What resulted is a whole new way to Connect the Edge.
Secure | Fast | Simple | Scalable | Zero-Power
NDI Co., Ltd. is a support company for electronic device-related technology, which was established with the investment of the Japan Electronic Device Industry Association and its member companies.
The invention of the lightbulb was not created through further improvements to the candle; similarly, data networks cannot be significantly enhanced by incremental improvements to existing network protocols or approaches. In fact, the entire industry appears to be missing the obvious.
CROSSPORT reinvented data networking from a wholly fresh perspective; looking at the core of data communications: serial data transfers. To do so, we had to discard 40 years of incremental enhancements based on an irrelevant assumption. Instead, we both embraced and challenged the status quo simultaneously to bring breakthrough solutions in a world of exploding data and a multiplicity of connections.
Reconnecting every aspect of our digital world
CROSSPORT’s Software Constructed Networks challenge everything that defines today’s data networks. Our technology is a clear break from perceived limitations that restrict the very definition of a data network connection, whether wired, wireless or optical.
Data networking is taught in every university, every company, every industry that data networks are created by adding routing and addressing information to optimized data packets over a single connection, and retroactively securing that connection. CROSSPORT changes all that, by introducing a data platform using multiple bridged I/O links.
At the same time, CROSSPORT’s Ai Data Platforms changes nothing.
+ No new connectors
+ No new protocols
+ No new components
+ No new hardware
+ No expensive routing
+ No security afterthoughts
+ No security afterthoughts
+ No transmission overheads
Just New Perspective, and a “Magic Touch”
Connecting every device, system, network, user and scenario, both present and future.
FASTER, SIMPLER and MORE SECURELY
OPTICAL USB & OPTO-ISOLATION
CROSSPORT technologies derived from optically isolated peripheral cabling solutions for medical uses. To achieve maximum speed, we had to avoid traditional buffered approaches. Power isolation required that we pull a data signal sent by a transferring side from the receiving side; but what if this was always done?
FAST & SIMPLE DATA TRANSFER
At the same time, we were approached by one of the world’s leading software and hardware companies to solve the challenge of transferring terabytes of gaming data from one platform to another. Data needed to be transferred direct from a first Host system to a second Host system, at the highest possible speeds.
The problem: peripheral bus protocols that supplied the necessary bandwidth are designed for Host to Device communications; and buffered alternatives are too slow, and scale expensively. A solution needed to use standard components, readily available cables, standard software and drivers, be simple enough for every-day users and it needed to be inexpensive.
THE PUSH-PULL FILE TRANSFER & NETWORK
According to the peripheral bus protocol specifications such as USB, a first Host system cannot speak directly to a second Host systems. The power and speed of peripheral communications derive from having a clear Master and a clear Slave, so the expensive overheads of network protocol arbitration are avoided. The packaging and addressing of data are also not an issue because, quite frankly, the recipient is obvious.
With two or more Host systems talking over an intermediate Device, two Hosts can communicate without the overhead of a Network.
Bridging multiple links, across multiple buses, CROSSPORT has shown that data transfers and networks between Peer systems can be established FASTER, SIMPLER and MORE SECURELY than anything previously delivered using peripheral communications.
Technology evolution never seems to follow a linear path.
Born out of technologies originally developed as part of develLAB Electronics, our modest basement beginnings were an insulated version of the Silicon Valley garage story. Working with standard components and materials, innovation derived from a novel viewpoint and reconceptualization of how data networks can work.
Initially requested to develop a simple bridged cable, the company continued to explore the technology and dig deeper – eventually creating a multi-port network switch and demonstrating the scalability and power of the novel data exchange approach.
Awarded Honorable Mention at the 2015 CES Innovation Awards for its 4-port USB 3.0 passive switch, develLAB Electronics Inc. ultimately failed to market its products and collapsed. Today, the technology and other assets form the basis of CROSSPORT Network Solutions Inc.
Recognized in 2018 at the IEEE International Conference for Consumer Electronics with four published papers, CROSSPORT is challenging the status-quo of consumer connectivity. Similarly, we presented the future of scalable and secured storage at the Creative Storage Conference in Silicon Valley.
CROSSPORT most recently multi-terabit data exchange platforms to NEDIA that exceed latencies of even the most sophisticated Ai accelerator connections. Connecting any system, our cross-chip latencies are below 5 nanoseconds offering direct and scalable parallel processing.
“There’s an App for That”
Advances in data networking have nearly always require a replacement of existing hardware; creating an ever-growing chasm between yesterday and tomorrow. With a view to transcending hardware currency, CROSSPORT unifies the digital universe with private, scalable and simple data links that leverage existing and future connections.
Designed for every major Operating System, our scalable and programmable apps are plug-n-play and can be deployed, upgraded and secured on billions of existing systems for Consumer, Enterprise, Machine Learning, Industrial, Data Center and NoT uses.
Absent hardware and port restrictions, our “software constructed” data platforms are protocol agnostic, providing heterogeneous bridging and integration options.
Edge Data Exchange
Appropriate for 80% of modern data exchange activities, Ai data exchange platforms deliver the future of Edge Data Exchange.
With expanding heterogenous systems and exploding data stores, Edge Networks demand a simpler data platform. Edge Data is also overdue for proper data security and private access.
In fact, CROSSPORT’s devicePIPE™ is the only data exchange platform that can deliver the privacy, security, power and scalability required by Edge computing requirements. No matter how sophisticated modern IP networking solutions evolve, there is no better way to ensure speed, scalability, security and flexibility than leaving data exchanges to intelligent systems themselves.
And, whether its cloud Data Centers, Intelligent cars, or across Desktops, it’s our networks that are constraining data security, interchange and processing at the Edge.
Ai – The Future is Intelligent
Empowered and controlled by Ai software, any intelligent system can connect and establish a direct and uninterrupted data exchange with any other system.To surmount the issues facing modern data networks, we need to eliminate the Network itself.
Data Networks are designed to route, switch and control data between connected systems. Networks are truly only required when systems are connected as addressable devices and data exchanges must be controlled by an intelligent network.
Its time to embrace science fiction and enable intelligent systems to construct data exchanges that evolve with their changing needs and capabilities.