Agilent Technologies and Gadzoox Networks Complete Compatibility Testing of 2 Gb/s Storage Network Devices.Business Editors and High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. and SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2001 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : A) and Gadzoox Networks Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ZOOX), a global supplier of intelligent storage area network (SAN) products, today announced that Agilent's 2 Gb/s (gigabit per second) Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) have passed compatibility testing with Gadzoox Networks 2 Gb/s Slingshot (networking, business, tool, product, protocol) Slingshot - CSK Software's real time financial server for the Internet. Slingshot allows the delivery of real time market data across the Internet and private intranets quickly, cheaply and securely. (TM) Fibre Channel switch In a computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is currently the core component of most storage area networks. family. Agilent conducted the 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel SAN tests, which included data transfer, software driver and application program interface tests to confirm compatibility between both companies' 2 Gb/s storage network devices. Results of the adapter/switch tests are available at www.agilent.com/view/storage. "Demand for 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel storage networks continues to rise with the growing number of customers supporting bigger data centers, Internet sites, and e-commerce applications," said Zack Mihalis, senior HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. marketing manager for Agilent's Storage Networking Division. "By confirming interoperability between our products, Agilent and Gadzoox Networks have proven that 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel has arrived and customers can take immediate advantage of the new, faster storage networks to meet their growing needs." "We're very pleased to be working with Agilent to ensure compatibility between their HBAs and our Slingshot switches," said David Hiatt, strategic alliances manager at Gadzoox Networks. "As new servers based on the IA-64 architecture hit the streets, the demand for storage throughput is increasing, and 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel is an important tool for delivering that throughput. Compatibility with leading HBAs such as Agilent's is an important factor in taking advantage of this growing market demand." About Agilent's 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs Based on 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. 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel controller, the Agilent HHBA-5221 provides the high bandwidth needed by advanced data centers to keep pace with ever-increasing storage needs of 32- and 64-bit server applications driven by ever expanding e-commerce and Internet applications. Agilent has conducted compatibility testing with Intel's IA-64 architecture for servers, storage systems and Fibre Channel infrastructure equipment from vendors such as Gadzoox, Chapparral, and Brocade. For more information on Agilent's HHBA-5221 Tachyon 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs visit www.agilent.com/view/storage. About Gadzoox Networks' Slingshot 2 Gb Open Fabric Switch Family The Slingshot family of products, the Slingshot 4218 and 4210, doubles the speed of current SAN switches and is based on the newest Open Fabric standard, FC-SW-2, which enables users to confidently build a heterogeneous SAN fabric. In addition, the Slingshot family boasts advanced features, including self-healing trunks, auto-sensing and auto-speed negotiating ports, and the highest port density -- 18 ports in a 1U form factor or 10 ports in a half-rack form factor. Agilent Storage Networking Solutions Agilent is a leading supplier of 1 and 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel solutions for the high-performance, enterprise-class SAN market. Agilent provides integrated HBA solutions as well as industry-leading Tachyon Fibre Channel protocol chips, fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , high-speed serializer/deserializer (SerDes), and port bypass ICs. Agilent has also developed IP-SAN (iSCSI) and Infiniband solutions. About Gadzoox Networks Gadzoox Networks offers intelligent Storage Area Network (SAN) Fibre Channel products that free IT managers from the increasing challenges of managing greater amounts of data with limited resources. Gadzoox Networks' storage networking products improve backup and restore, enable high availability, accelerate performance, and reduce storage management costs. Gadzoox Networks is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ), with corporate headquarters located at 5850 Hellyer Avenue in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information about Gadzoox Networks' products and technology advancements in the SAN industry, visit the company's Web site at http://www.gadzoox.com. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics and life sciences. The company's 43,000 employees serve customers in more than 120 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $9.4 billion in fiscal year 2000, as restated to reflect the sale of its healthcare business. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. Slingshot is a registered trademark of Gadzoox Networks. |
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