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INRANGE Enables Long Distance SANs With Fibre Channel over WAN
Technology The New Virtual Link/9000 Connects Fibre Channel Storage Devices at
Distances Up to 3,000 Miles
LUMBERTON, N.J., May 23, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- INRANGE Technologies
(Nasdaq: INRG), a leader in scalable storage networking solutions, today
announced general availability of the IN-VSN(TM) Virtual Link/9000 Fibre Channel
Extender "distance technology" that lets Storage Area Network (SAN) managers
extend fibre channel traffic across wide area networks to support disk
mirroring, storage sharing, centralized backup, and other key business
applications.
Users can deploy the VL/9000 between INRANGE's FC/9000(TM) Fibre Channel
Director and remote storage devices or between a host and remote storage devices
to cost-effectively bridge sites and make distributed systems appear and perform
as if they were located on the local SAN. In its initial offering, the VL/9000
supports Unix and NT server environments, providing full gigabit per second
Fibre Channel and Ultra 2 SCSI networking over unlimited distances across ATM
backbones. Support for Gigabit Ethernet networks is expected to be available at
the end of the second quarter, 2001.
The ability to allow SAN traffic to traverse existing ATM and IP networks is
becoming a key imperative for companies with multiple locations. This drives
both new applications such as distributed data warehousing and collaborative
commerce, as well as new business models such as the Storage Service Provider
(SSP) market. "Enabling customers to overcome traditional boundaries and evolve
SANs into a single, manageable entity is at the core of INRANGE's vision for
storage networking," stated INRANGE EVP and CTO, Charles Foley. "Our IN-VSN
family of storage networking solutions, with offerings such as the VL/9000 and
our FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director, is helping users to realize the promise of
storage networks by making data easier to manage, access, backup, and share
across the campus, the metro area, and now across the country."
Distance Technologies to Enable the Virtual SAN
INRANGE's distance extension or "virtual storage networking" technologies for
storage infrastructures include top-performing channel extension systems that
are used to enable industry-leading data mirroring applications from EMC, IBM,
and Hitachi Data Systems. INRANGE also provides optical networking solutions,
such as the Spectrum II line of Dense Wave Division Multiplexers (DWDM), which
let users cost-effectively use fiber optic networks to provide high-bandwidth
transport of data across campus and metropolitan areas. For its award-winning
FC/9000 Director, INRANGE recently introduced breakthrough distance technology
that lets all ports in the director communicate with SANs and devices up to 100
kilometers away ? ten times farther than other industry standard offerings.
"The VL/9000 is a further indication of how INRANGE's competencies across
storage and networking technologies combine to allow us to provide our customers
with true business solutions, and not just network components," stated Foley.
"Through the VL/9000 and additional networking offerings in 2001 that will
address long-distance SAN connectivity, we'll help our customers to integrate
SANs seamlessly and locate them where it makes business sense."
As announced previously in its 2001 technology roadmap, INRANGE expects to
deliver late in 2001 embedded technology for its FC/9000 that supports
director-to-director communication to link SANs over standard IP networks. Also
in that timeframe, the company expects to deliver a VL/9000 gateway solution
that lets the FC/9000 connect to smaller Fibre Channel edge switches, also over
standard IP networks.
About INRANGE Technologies (www.inrange.com)
INRANGE Technologies designs, manufactures, markets and services networking and
switching products for storage, data and telecommunications networks. Our
products provide fast and reliable connections among networks of computers and
related devices and are used in global 2000 businesses and other enterprises
that operate large-scale and heterogeneous systems where open connectivity,
reliability, and continuous availability are critical. Our products are designed
to be compatible with various vendors' products and multiple communication
standards and protocols.
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