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Genroco Sponsors SAN Over Gigabit Ethernet Session At San 2000
Conference Leader in Next Generation Storage Area Networks to Be Joined
by Key Players for Industry Roundtable
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 22, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- GENROCO, Inc. (OTC
Bulletin Board: GRCI) announced that it will be sponsoring and chairing a "Birds
of a Feather" (BOF) session on Storage Area Networks (SAN) over Gigabit Ethernet
(GigE) at the SAN 2000 Conference being held here next week.
The session, which will be held in the San Juan Room at the San Jose Doubletree
Hotel from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30th, will be led by Donald D.
Woelz, Vice President of Marketing for GENROCO. Mr. Woelz is the author of the
ANSI T10 Specification for SCSI over Scheduled Transfer (SST) Protocol and
functions the Vice-Chairman of the ANSI T11.1 group that is responsible for
Scheduled Transfer, Gigabyte System Network and other high performance
networking standards.
"We've had a great response to the announcement of the BOF session," indicated
Dr. Lance A. Leventhal, SAN 2000 Chairman. "Almost 40 (companies) signed up
already, so I estimate we may get 100 people."
Fibre Channel's capabilities have enabled the development of SANs which are
high-speed networks of shared storage devices (including disk arrays and tape
drives) and computers (including servers and clients). SANs enable fast,
efficient and reliable direct transfer of data between multiple storage devices
and clients without intermediate server gateways. Heretofore, in order to get
SANs to interoperate with Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks
(WANs), servers have needed to be employed as portals and a SAN's FC data
streams needed to be repackaged into TCP/IP messages for LAN and/or WAN clients
to be able to store and retrieve information. This translation results in
increased server overhead and decreased data transfer speeds.
GENROCO has demonstrated the ability to operate SANs directly over LANs and WANs
using SST technology and currently is shipping hardware and software that
accomplishes this. Proposals by Adaptec, Cisco, IBM, and others describe
different methods for encapsulating SAN data stream into LAN/WAN protocols such
as TCP/IP. GENROCO, Adaptec, Gadzoox, Hewlett-Packard, Q-Logic, and 3Com are
expected to be among the presenters at the Ethernet SAN BOF.
"When we pioneered the concept of seamlessly interfacing SANs, LANs, and WANs
over two years ago, very few people understood the benefits of encapsulating
SCSI over message passing networks," declared Mr. Woelz. "I am delighted to see
the increasing interest in expanding the benefits of SAN beyond Fibre Channel."
"The benefits of network independent SAN can be enormous," exclaimed Arie van
Praag of CERN, the European Center for High Energy Physics in Geneva,
Switzerland, where the World Wide Web was invented. "Think of it. Direct access
to web pages by PCs and videos delivered to TV settop boxes without servers."
Van Praag and his associates at CERN collaborated with GENROCO to produce the
GigE LAN and OC48 WAN components of the Company's new Fibre Channel network
gateway router.
For more information about the SAN 2000 conference or to register at no charge,
call (800) 351-6000 or (408) 297-8484, or e-mail to
conference@sanconference.com.
About GENROCO
GENROCO, Inc. is a 25-year-old, engineering and marketing company that
specializes in providing I/O solutions for users of high performance, network
independent storage area networks (SANs). By offering cross-platform support for
its patented technology, the Company is able to deliver 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 www.genroco.com .
Contact: Dru Popper-Lopez, Director, Marketing and Communications of
GENROCO, 262-644-2513, or dru@genroco.com. |
