Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry's First 4 Gb Fibre Channel Storage Area Network at Storage Networking World.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Spring 2004 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. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2004 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. DX4+ Dual-Channel Controller Exceeds 700 MB/s of Fibre Channel Bandwidth in a Single 4 Gb Channel Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : A) today announced it will demonstrate the industry's first 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) at the Storage Networking World conference in Phoenix, Ariz., April 5-8, at Booth C1. In tests conducted at Agilent, the Tachyon DX4+ Fibre Channel controller exceeded more than 700 MB/s of bandwidth in a single 4 Gb channel. This level of bandwidth performance is significantly higher than the industry's previous maximum of 390 MB/s in a 2 Gb single-channel controller. The ever-increasing amount of corporate electronic data requires SANs to store and retrieve more data at higher speeds. The emerging 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel standard addresses this need for higher performance. "We are extremely pleased with the bandwidth performance results of our Tachyon DX4+," said Erik Ottem, marketing director of Agilent's Input/Output Solutions Division. "Not only are we the first to market with a 4 Gb Fibre Channel controller, we're also the first to demonstrate an end-to-end SAN with all the necessary 4 Gb building blocks and test equipment." At the conference, Agilent's HPFC-5700A Tachyon DX4+ Fibre Channel controller will provide the "host server" and "target server to disk" connections in the SAN demonstration. The demonstration will feature an end-to-end 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel video and data transmission link. It includes an enterprise server communicating with its data center server to access streaming video and data from a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks (just a bunch of disks See JBOD. (jargon, storage) Just a Bunch Of Disks - (JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another. ) storage resource. The Tachyon DX4+ is configured as a host server/initiator that transmits and receives 4 Gb/s video and data through an Agilent AFBR-57R5P 4 Gb/s SFP SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable (optical transceiver module) SFP Société Française de Physique (French Physics Society; Paris) Sfp Svenska Folkpartiet (Finnish: Swedish People~s Party) fiber-optic transceiver connected to an Agilent HDMP-0540 22-port loop switch. The loop switch is connected to a 4/2 Gb/s target-to-disk server accessing a 2 Gb/s JBOD storage array. Additionally, an Agilent 1733A SAN tester is configured to generate 4 Gb/s traffic through ports of the loop switch as well as display 4 Gb traffic and link rates. Agilent 4 Gb Fibre Channel Solutions Agilent is a leading supplier of 4 Gb Fibre Channel component, board and test solutions. No other vendor offers protocol, physical layer and fiber-optic components combined with leading-edge signal and protocol testing. More than half of all storage-networked arrays use Agilent components. More information is available at www.agilent.com/view/storage. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal year 2003. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: Please direct reader inquiries to Agilent Semiconductor Products Group at +1 800 235 0312, or e-mail us at semiconductorsupport@agilent.com. 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