Genroco Shows World's Fastest Network Switch At SC99
Genroco Shows World's Fastest Network Switch At SC99
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov 15, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GENROCO, Inc.
(GENROCO) (OTC Bulletin Board: "GRCIE") announced here at the SC99 high
performance computing and networking exhibition that the company is now
shipping its new DataPropulsion TSX-8864 8-port full bridging GSN
switch.
The switch, which was designed to significantly improve the efficient
movement of large amounts of information for scientific and technical
computing, HDTV, data mining, video & film archiving, transaction
processing, and storage management, is being demonstrated in the SGI
(no. 621), GENROCO (no. 771), and High Performance Networking Forum
(no. 773) booths at the show.
Designed to interoperate with Ethernet, Fibre Channel, ATM, HIPPI,
InfiniBand, and other networking traffic, the product offers a full
duplex data rate of 1.6 gigabytes per second on each port, and an
aggregate bandwidth of 6.4 Gigabytes per second, making it the fastest,
full function networking switch available in the world today. Units
have already been shipped to several end-users around the world.
Features of the DataPropulsion TSX-8864 8-port GSN switch include: --
Multiplexing of high speed TCP/IP and Schedule Transfer traffic
-- Non-blocking crossbar fabric
-- Broadcast capable
-- Supports full 48 bit ULA
-- Conforms to ANSI standards for HIPPI-6400
-- Full duplex, error-free, flow-controlled data transmission.
"As the heart of the network independent SAN solutions we have
developed, our new switch bridges directly to the same number of
non-blocking, full speed Fibre Channel connections as a fabric made up
of three dozen Fibre Channel switches. Our switch has also sustained
nearly 400 megabytes per second per port running TCP/IP network
traffic. This certainly reinforces our continuing commitment to
implementing the latest in new technology," stated Chris Good,
GENROCO's Chief Technical Officer. The switch not only advances the
state-of-the art for Storage Area Network technology, but also sets a
new standard for high-performance computing."
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 US
Departments of Defense and Energy, CERN, and other research
institutions.
Additional information about GENROCO can be found at
genroco.com
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