Chaparral Technologies Demonstrates Uncompressed Real-time Video with New Fibre Channel RAID Controllers.LONGMONT, Colo. and LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999-- The K-Series RAID Controllers Offer Leading Price/Performance Solutions for the Film and Video Market Chaparral Technologies, Inc. will demonstrate its K-Series Fibre Channel-to-Ultra2 SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. RAID controllers -- running uncompressed real-time video -- at NAB 99 (National Association of Broadcaster's Tradeshow), April 19-22. Chaparral's K-Series controllers provide sustained disk transfer of greater than 85 MB/sec for image-intensive applications such as animation, video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. , special effects and video-on-demand. Chaparral's demonstration will be in the Fibre Channel Community (FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ) at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Booth no. S2150, A-9. Increasingly, the film industry is implementing Fibre Channel technology for increased performance (100 Mbytes/sec), extended cable lengths (10 kilometers), and increased device connectivity (127 devices per loop). In addition, RAID arrays offer the necessary storage and striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data striping capability for high-speed imaging applications. The combination of Fibre Channel and RAID provides high reliability optimum visual computing solutions. "The architecture of the K-Series RAID controllers is ideal for applications such as film and video," commented Michael Gluck, President and COO. "Our products are one of the first to implement Ultra2 SCSI LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential (80 MB/sec) with Fibre Channel for exceptional performance at a very competitive price point. These low cost solutions when combined with the new high performance NT-class computers such as the new Silicon Graphics Visual PC workstation can offer a big advantage to the film and video industry. Previously, these applications required more expensive RAID controllers and computer platforms (such as SGI Onyx)." Chaparral's K-Series RAID controllers enable users to take advantage of the performance benefits of Fibre Channel and RAID. In addition, these products offer fault tolerant features such as hot-swappable controllers and devices, ECC-protection, and online capacity expansion to ensure data reliability and availability. By combining high speed interconnects and advanced availability features, the K7413 provides optimum performance, fault tolerance, and scalability for high volume data applications. About Chaparral Products Chaparral's family of External RAID Controllers for disk storage systems is designed for industry-leading high performance and high availability required by the film and video markets. The product family includes SCSI and Fibre Channel offerings. Advanced features of Chaparral's RAID controllers include advanced configuration and management interfaces, high-availability functions such as automated fail-over, hot-swappable components, and SAF-TE SAF-TE SCSI Access Fault-Tolerant Enclosure and SMART event monitoring. Chaparral's Intelligent Storage Routers are focused on the mid-range to high-end UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT markets. These products incorporate Fibre Channel and SCSI technologies to build clustering, remote vaulting, data migration and enterprise backup applications. The Chaparral family of products meets users' needs for high performance and fault tolerance. They also enable seamless connectivity across disk, tape and optical systems. Chaparral supports Extended Copy, the new SCSI-3 standard adopted by both ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. and 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 ) for third-party copy. This unique software-hardware solution provides an ability to deliver the ultimate in high-speed backup solutions over Fibre Channel. About Chaparral Technologies Chaparral is headquartered in Longmont, and provides external RAID and Router Fibre Channel and SCSI storage products and solutions to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and Distribution customers. Chaparral is privately held and has a strategic relationship with Adaptec that includes equity participation. Additional information about Chaparral and its products can be found at www.chaparraltec.com or by contacting our headquarters at 303/684-3200 or West Coast Office at 408/559-8270. |
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