Genroco Unveils Next Generation High Performance Storage Area Networks
Genroco Unveils Next Generation High Performance Storage Area Networks
SLINGER, Wis., Nov 10, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Commercial Debut of Network Independent SAN at SC99
in Portland, Oregon
GENROCO, Inc. (GENROCO) (OTC BB Board: "GRCIE") will unveil its
revolutionary, "evolution-proof" network independent SAN products and
technologies during SC99 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland
November 13 to November 19.
Located in booth 771, GENROCO is part of the exhibition that showcases
the latest in technological developments for high-performance
networking and computing.
The conference is designed to advance the science and application of
computation and communications with a focus on the impact this
evolution has on the rest of the information processing industry.
The show offers GENROCO its first large-scale commercial opportunity to
present its complete Gigabyte System Network (GSN) / Scheduled Transfer
(ST) product family including its new 8 port, full bridging, GSN
switch; GSN/HIPPI/Gigabit Ethernet network router; GSN Storage Array
Controller; and SCSI over ST software for several UNIX platforms. These
new offerings form the building blocks through which the highest
bandwidth, lowest latency, storage and networking infrastructures can
be built today. More importantly, the GENROCO GSN and ST products allow
for highly scalable SANs across numerous, disparate network topologies
at data rates well exceeding today's high-end networks.
"An investment in the ST SAN infrastructure offered by GENROCO will
allow network storage purchased now to seamlessly interoperate with
systems not even imagined today," says Arie van Praag of CERN, the
European Center for High Energy Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.
GENROCO's demonstration will feature SGI, Compaq, IBM, and Sun UNIX
platforms networked via a GENROCO Datapropulsion(R) GSN switch and
router, to a GENROCO TURBOstor(R) GSN Storage Array Controller with Sun
and Compaq Fibre Channel (FC) disk subsystems. The computers will be
running TCP/IP, ST networking, and SCSI on ST storage concurrently.
This revolutionary approach is different from standard offerings
because while it can support FC connected hosts, storage, and switch
fabrics like typical SANs, it can also operate Gigabit Ethernet, HIPPI,
ATM, Infiniband, or other communication protocols.
"The SC99 show is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate our
progressive approach to SANs," stated Carl Pick, Chairman and CEO of
GENROCO. "Our unique GSN/ST products provide users with investment
protection and headroom to easily grow their storage and networking
environments regardless of what interconnects they want or need to
support."
About Schedule Transfer (ST) ST is a new ANSI standard network protocol
designed to allow many times higher bandwidth with much lower host
platform overhead than TCP/IP or any other current industry standard.
An ST datagram over any type of network commences, or is "scheduled",
only when a ready transmit buffer is matched by an equal sized, ready
receive buffer at the destination. This allows the sending and
receiving engines at endpoints of a network to operate at the highest
possible speed and efficiency by eliminating buffer overruns and
underruns.
About Gigabyte System Network (GSN) GSN, is the highest bandwidth and
lowest latency open system industry standard (ANSI HIPPI-6400-PH, ANSI
NCITS 323-1998), providing full duplex 6400 megabit (800 megabyte) per
second channels of error-free, flow controlled data. The technology is
ideal wherever organizations require timely movement of large amounts
of information including scientific and technical computing, digital TV
and movie production, data mining, transaction processing, video and
film archiving, and storage management. The ANSI standard provides for
interoperability with disparate technologies including Ethernet, Fibre
Channel, ATM, HIPPI-800, and other standards. The GSN fabric operates
at a full duplex data rate of 1.6 gigabytes per second making it an
ideal backbone for multiplexing Fibre Channel storage data streams.
Further information about GSN and ST can be found at
hnf.org.
About GENROCO GENROCO, Inc. is a 25-year-old, publicly traded
engineering and marketing company that specializes in developing I/O
solutions for users of high performance storage area networks (SANs).
By providing cross-platform support for its patented technology, the
Company is able to offer unique, extraordinarily high bandwidth, low
host overhead products for these markets. GENROCO enjoys a global
customer base that includes Compaq, Fujitsu, SGI, Sun, the U.S.
Departments of Defense and Energy, CERN, and other research
institutions.
Additional information about GENROCO can be found at
genroco.com .
Additional information about SC99 can be found at sc99.org .
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