INRANGE FC9000,1st Director Interoperable with Cisco Router
INRANGE Interconnects IP Network Devices With Enterprise SANs
INRANGE's FC/9000 Becomes First Director Interoperable With the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router
LUMBERTON, N.J., Nov 6, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- INRANGE Technologies (Nasdaq: INRG chart, msgs), a leader in scalable storage networking solutions, announced today that it has successfully completed laboratory interoperability testing of the IN-VSN(TM) FC/9000(TM) 64-port and 128-port Fibre Channel Directors with the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router, the first networking device to bridge Fibre Channel to IP networks, using the iSCSI protocol.
The combination of the IN-VSN(TM) FC/9000(TM) and the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router is the first to blend the benefits of a high-availability, director-class storage networking infrastructure with the productivity gains of enabling servers, workstations, and other devices in IP networks to access and share pools of high-performance Fibre Channel storage from IBM and Hitachi Data Systems.
INRANGE also announced its membership into the storage networking track of the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video, and Integrated Data) Partner Program, an interoperability testing and co-marketing program enabling leading product and services firms to deploy innovative e-business solutions. Under the program, Cisco sets criteria for interoperability testing between specific versions of a partner's products and specified versions of Cisco software. This program will enable the two companies to further work together in assisting customers in implementing INRANGE's FC/9000 storage infrastructure with the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router and other networking solutions that will be verified through the program.
"ISCSI's value to enterprise storage networking is its ability to extend the benefits of high-performance SANs beyond the data center using the ubiquity and familiarity of IP networking," said Mark Cree, general manager of the Storage Router Business Unit at Cisco Systems. "INRANGE's qualification of the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router with its director-class Fibre Channel switches is a significant achievement in delivering this benefit to our mutual customers."
"Storage networks are taking an important evolutionary step, based on the cooperative efforts of market leaders in IP and fibre channel networking infrastructure," stated Carl Greiner, META Group Vice President, Enterprise Data Center Strategies. "Customers can now join islands of mission-critical SANs together inexpensively on existing backbones, effectively creating one pool of shared storage."
This iSCSI/fibre channel networking solution supports connectivity between storage systems from IBM (Enterprise Storage Server or "Shark") and Hitachi Data Systems' 9960 (Freedom Lightning Series), with Windows NT, Solaris, and Linux servers. INRANGE and Cisco are also testing INRANGE's 2 Gb FC/9000 edge switches and Host Bus Adapters -- which INRANGE brings to market with its technology partner, QLogic -- with the Cisco SN 5420 router to support enterprise-class storage networking solutions.
"INRANGE has been at the forefront of providing customers with valued options for creating highly scalable and distributed storage networks," stated Dale Lafferty, INRANGE Vice President of Marketing and Alliances. "Our collaboration with Cisco builds on our leadership in these key areas, giving mutual INRANGE and Cisco users the advantages of a centrally managed SAN that lets them leverage storage investments cost-effectively across existing IP resources."
About INRANGE (www.inrange.com)
INRANGE Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: INRG chart, msgs), a subsidiary of SPX Corporation, provides large-scale, mission critical storage networking products, software and services -- the IN-VSN offering -- which provides "end-to-end, any distance - anywhere" solutions. These solutions include a unique family of switches, HBAs, directors, storage over WAN and optical networking products that allow storage networks to extend beyond traditional geographic boundaries. The combination of IN-VSN, and INRANGE Global Consulting offerings of consulting and professional services, provide solutions to customers' complex business problems and storage networking applications. INRANGE has a 33-year history of providing mission-critical networking technologies, servicing over 2200 customers in 90 countries.
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