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INRANGE Smashes SAN Distance Limitation With
New Technology in FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director
Any-to-Any 100 Kilometer Distance
Capability for Enterprise SANs Now Supported
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's enterprise storage
area networks (SANs) must provide instant, global access to data distributed
across multiple sites and over significant distances. Traditionally, 10
kilometers has been the distance limitation between devices in a SAN. To
overcome this limitation, INRANGE Technologies (Nasdaq: INRG), a leading
developer of scalable infrastructure solutions for SANs, announced today that
its enterprise-class IN-VSN(TM) FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director has been
upgraded with new technology (XCAF) to allow any port in a SAN to communicate
over 100 kilometers, without performance degradation.
INRANGE is demonstrating its "virtual SAN" capabilities at the Comdex/Fall
Conference (November 13-17, Las Vegas), exhibiting as part of the Fibre
Channel Industry Association's pavilion. The 64-port FC/9000 is currently the
highest capacity fibre channel director available. With this announcement,
each of its 64 ports can support SAN devices over 100-kilometer distances
while maintaining full utilization of bandwidth. In addition, the company has
issued a Statement of Direction that will increase the maximum capacity of the
FC/9000 to 128 ports. With that upgrade, all 128 ports would also have the
extended distance capability.
Carl Greiner, Vice President-Director of META Group, commented on the
evolving role of director-class platforms within storage networks. "Directors
are becoming backbones, and must have mega-bandwidth capability between SANs,
across the extended campus or MAN," said Greiner. "Until now, users have been
limited to only a few ports that could go long distances without severe
performance drop-off. XCAF in conjunction with the FC/9000 allows any-to-any
port configurations between directors and more effectively addresses the
bandwidth issues."
"Since every port on the FC/9000 can simultaneously support 100
kilometers, users will no longer be forced to make tradeoffs such as limiting
the number of extended ports," said INRANGE Executive Vice President of
Marketing Charles Foley. "This is key for the emerging backbone model of
SANs, and makes the FC/9000 the logical choice for today's SSP and ASP metro
model connecting remote devices into a single-managed SAN."
With the explosive growth in SANs, a key imperative is to implement
solutions that work not only today, but also in coming years. Business
dynamics and today's growth in enterprises indicate that users and systems
will not always remain in the same location within the campus/metro
environment. "Our new distance-shattering technology will make the most
efficient use of SANs as businesses grow," said Foley.
"One of today's greatest SAN challenges is managing the connectivity and
growth of geographically distributed SANs," said Robin Purohit, senior
director of product management for SAN, Clustering and Replication, VERITAS
Software. "Technologies like INRANGE's new FC/9000 provides the connectivity
for IT professionals to increase global data availability and enhance system
performance."
The XCAF 100-kilometer technology for the FC/9000 is scheduled for
December, 2000 availability. It will be available through the company's
direct sales force, as well as through its alternate channels of resellers and
OEMs.
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