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To: Sarkie who wrote (26641)	4/26/2000 5:17:00 PM
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Single Point For Storage Management InRange's fibre channel director helps systems from rival vendors interoperate By Martin J. Garvey ajor storage vendors still haven't enabled their systems to interoperate directly with competitors' products across storage area networks. But this week, InRange Technology Corp. will ship a 64-port Fibre Channel director that gives customers a single point of management for an unprecedented number of incompatible storage systems and servers. Many customers have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of open-systems servers and storage devices on their enterprise SANs. That means companies have to daisy-chain low-end switches or directors to interconnect them--a process that consumes resources. InRange's FC/9000 64-port director changes that by taking on the load of many of these devices in one box. This summer, InRange plans to connect the FC/9000 to its Escon mainframe directors, so that the biggest servers also can be part of open-systems networks. By year's end, the company plans to equip the FC/9000 with 128 ports. The FC/9000 will be priced at $4,375 per port, and InRange expects the typical configuration to go out with 40 ports. "You can't have single points of failure," says Charles Foley, executive VP and chief technology officer of InRange, "so it takes two ports on each switch to connect them, which means customers [using smaller switches] are getting only 25% of potential throughput because data must pass through a smaller pipe." When smaller switches have to talk to one another, some data is always sitting idle while the rest passes between the devices, he says. The FC/9000 processes data at 100 Mbytes per second. Meta Group analyst Carl Greiner says InRange is setting the standard for enterprise Fibre Channel directors. "Servers are growing like weeds, and it's not unusual to see a couple of thousand servers in a data center," he says. "Customers need two ports for each server, in case somebody kicks one, and they easily gobble up too many of the smaller switches Single Point For Storage Management InRange's fibre channel director helps systems from rival vendors interoperate Soon INrange will go to N+I Booth 4615 INRANGE Technologies Corporation INRANGE Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure technologies for storage, data, and voice networks, is introducing the 64-port FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director, the industry's most scalable Fibre Channel Switch for enterprise-class Storage Area Networks (SANs). Also being featured is Universal TouchPoint Architecture (UTA), a QoS management platform that provides visibility across physical networks and proof of service across universal network interfaces and the OptiMux Spectrum 2, a dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) that delivers up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth over one fiber optic link.