Agilent Technologies' Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Host Adapter Earns Microsoft's 'Designed for Windows NT' Logo.PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999-- Agilent Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company, today announced that its HHBA-5101 PCI-to-Fibre Channel host adapter has earned the Microsoft "Designed for Windows NT" logo in both the "Cluster/Fibre Channel Adapter" and "Storage/Fibre Channel Adapter" categories. The HHBA-5101 is a member of Agilent's Tachyon tachyon (tăk`ēŏn'), hypothetical elementary particle that travels only at speeds exceeding that of light. According to the theory of relativity, the speed of light is the limiting velocity for all ordinary material particles. family of Fibre Channel host adapters and protocol controller ICs, developed and marketed by Agilent's High-speed I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Business Unit, a leading supplier of Fibre Channel connectivity products to the storage area network (SAN) market. The Microsoft "Designed for Windows NT" logo indicates that the HHBA-5101 Fibre Channel host bus adapter See host adapter. has met or exceeded stringent testing requirements established by Microsoft Corp. The industry-leading performance of the HHBA-5101, coupled with compatibility with Windows NT 4.0 in a Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. ) environment, delivers unparalleled benefits to IT professionals who are implementing SANs in high-availability, Windows NT environments. The HHBA-5101 is now listed on the Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility List HCL stands for hardware compatibility list. In today's world, there are vast amounts of computer hardware in circulation, and many operating systems too. A hardware compatibility list is a database of hardware models and its compatibility with a certain operating system. (HCL HCl hydrochloric acid. ), found at http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl/. "Windows NT Server 4.0 provides a robust set of storage services, and Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition and the Microsoft Cluster Service increases these capabilities with the addition of clustering," said Stacey Breyfogle program manager for Windows Hardware Strategy and Evangelism at Microsoft. "We are pleased to see the Agilent Fibre Channel host adapter providing storage connection capabilities for customers using the storage services provided by Windows NT 4.0." "Earning the Microsoft `Designed for Windows NT' logo is another milestone for our Tachyon Fibre Channel host adapter program," said Julian Elliott, general manager of Agilent's High-speed I/O Business Unit. "The Tachyon TL adapter demonstrates Agilent's commitment and close working relationship with Microsoft. We are committed to achieving this status with all of our current and future Fibre Channel host adapters." Agilent Tachyon TL Host Adapters The Agilent HHBA-5100 and HHBA-5101 are 32- and 64-bit, 33MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Fibre Channel host adapters that are optimized for SAN applications. They are compliant with FC-AL-2 and PCI Local Bus specification 2.1, and support FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) See Fibre Channel. FC-AL - Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop. Class 3 service and full-duplex operation with parallel inbound and outbound processing. The HHBA-5100 and HHBA-5101 support both Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and Fabric (F- and FL- Port Login) connections. The HHBA-5101 is based on Agilent's industry-leading Tachyon Fibre Channel architecture. This state machine architecture uses hardware automation -- the fastest method of managing I/O operations -- to execute Fibre Channel protocol and SCSI command operations. Unlike the performance of RISC-based Fibre Channel architectures, the performance of the Agilent Tachyon architecture is not limited by the bandwidth of an embedded RISC processor. Its performance increases linearly when higher-performance system processors are employed (typically an Intel Pentium(R)-class processor or high-performance RISC processor). Drivers are available for Microsoft Windows NT, Novell NetWare, SCO UnixWare, Solaris x86, and Linux. Additional drivers will be supported this year. These drivers employ interrupt-avoidance techniques that reduce the number of CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. interrupts to one or fewer per I/O operation -- freeing the host CPU to spend more time processing applications. The HHBA-5101 offers system vendors with significant configuration flexibility by providing a gigabit interface connector (GBIC (GigaBit Interface Converter) A hardware module used to attach network devices to fiber-based transmission systems such as Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet. The GBIC converts the serial electrical signals to serial optical signals and vice versa. ) which enables either a copper or optical Fibre Channel connection. The HHBA-5101 is available directly from Agilent, Avnet Electronics Marketing and Arrow Electronics. Further information about these products can be found on the Web at http://www.agilent.com/view/fibrechannel. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies, Inc. is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. itself into two fully independent companies. With 42,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies, as a subsidiary of HP, is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent had net revenues of more than $8.3 billion in fiscal year 1999. 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