Critical Products Focus on Data Intensive Real Time Systems

  • High Performance and Capacity
  • Rugged Packaging & Extended Temperature Operation
  • Low SWaP (Size Weight and Power)
  • Open Standards Based
  • Leverage and Ruggedize the Best of Commercial Technologies
  • Program Proven In Major Platforms with Top Defense Contractors

Storage

Scalable Solid State Storage

Critical I/O’s storage product lineup features high performance, high capacity, rugged solid state storage solutions in an extremely small size, weight, and power (SWaP) footprint.

  • High Capacity VPX and XMC Modules, up to 46 TB
  • Rugged – Designed for harsh environments
  • Removable – Quick and easy removal of solid state storage modules
  • High performance – up to 6 GBytes/sec sustained read/write
  • Extensive solid state storage performance and thermal testing and qualification
  • Storage software suite for DAS, NAS, recording, encryption, hot swap, health monitor

Ethernet

XGE Silicon Stack Ethernet – Designed for the most demanding Real-Time applications

Critical I/O’s silicon stack based Ethernet XMC products provide high performance and broad protocol support for the most demanding real-time applications

  • High Speed – 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, 1GbE
  • Focus on efficiently moving massive amounts of data
  • Rugged – Designed for harsh environments
  • High Port Count – dual and quad port versions
  • Low Latency, Efficient Ethernet Protocols – RDMA & UDP Direct
  • Support for Linux, Windows, VxWorks and Integrity
  • Ideal for Data Intensive Applications
  • Fully compatible with all standard Ethernet protocols

Fibre Channel

Enabling High Performance Storage & Networking Applications

Critical I/O’s Fibre Channel XMC products employ a silicon stack architecture which offloads most protocol processing for ultra high performance and provides broad protocol support such as SCSI and RDMA.

  • Support for 32/16/8/4/2/1 Gb Fibre Channel rates
  • Ideal for Data Intensive Networking & Storage Applications
  • Silicon Stack architecture – low latency & low host processor
    overhead
  • Rugged – Designed for harsh environments
  • Extensive Protocol support – RDMA, SCSI-FCP, FCLP (FXLP),
    FC-AV, FC-IP and ASM
  • O/S Support for Linux, Windows, VxWorks and Integrity
  • Leader in Mil/Aero Fibre Channel with 20 years of expertise

About Us

Critical I/O is the leading provider of high speed networking & advanced storage solutions for embedded computing, avionics and military applications.

Critical I/O’s technology focus is high capacity removable SSD storage, and high performance interfaces supporting protocols such as RDMA.

© 2025 Critical I/O, LLC All rights reserved. Maintained by StateWP

Critical IO
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.