PMC-Sierra Reaches Milestone of Shipping Four Million 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel Ports.PMC-Sierra's 4G FC Chipset is Enabling the Rapid Adoption of End-to-End 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel Enterprise Storage Systems SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School ) today announced that its market-leading end-to-end 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel chipset, comprised of 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. [R] Fibre Channel controllers and Cut-Through Switches A switching device that begins to output an incoming data packet before the packet is completely received. Contrast with store-and-forward switch. , surpassed the four million ports shipped milestone. The chipset has garnered multiple design wins at four out of the top five global enterprise storage system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and is enabling the rapid Fortune 500 market adoption of high-performance end-to-end 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel storage systems. "This significant milestone demonstrates that the end-to-end 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel storage system market is accelerating with PMC-Sierra at the forefront," said Mark Stibitz, vice president and general manager of PMC-Sierra's Enterprise Storage Division. "We're excited to help enable the 4Gbit/s storage system market and expect continued acceleration of 4Gbit/s systems across the IT enterprise landscape." "Seagate's Cheetah 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel hard drives are being delivered in volume worldwide and are generating a lot of excitement among storage system OEMs," said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager of Seagate's Enterprise Compute Business. "The high performance, scalability, and reliability of the latest 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel offerings deliver the storage needs required of IT users, who stand to greatly benefit having end-to-end 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel connectivity." PMC-Sierra's end-to-end 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel chipset (see Tables 1 and 2) provides seamless connectivity from host to hard disk drive with best-in-class price-performance (see Figure 1). The chipset is optimized to enable storage system OEMs to increase the reliability, serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. and availability of their storage systems. In addition, PMC-Sierra's solution minimizes development costs by providing a common programming interface across the product line and guarantees interoperability from host to disk drive. "Worldwide IT enterprises seek the most reliable and highest performing technology for their mission critical data environments without impacting their budgets, schedules and staff," said John Barber
John Barber (born 22 July 1929 in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire) is a former racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London. , research director at Gartner. "4Gbit/s Fibre Channel answers the call by being backwards compatible See backward compatible. backwards compatible - backward compatibility to existing infrastructures, while doubling network and system performance at comparable price points." Pricing and Availability PMC-Sierra's 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel chipsets are available now. For further information, including datasheets, please visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com/storage or a PMC-Sierra sales representative at www.pmc-sierra.com/contactSales/ . [TABLE OMITTED] [TABLE OMITTED] About PMC-Sierra's Storage Products PMC-Sierra is a leading provider of enterprise storage system solutions for networked (SAN/NAS) and server storage applications, with a broad portfolio of Fibre Channel and SAS/SATA protocol controllers and disk interconnect products. PMC-Sierra's Tachyon protocol controllers, Fibre Channel loop switches, enclosure management controllers and maxSAS[TM] expander switches and multiplexers provide the most comprehensive solution for enterprise-class storage systems. Together, these products are providing end-to-end semiconductor and software solutions to the industry's leading storage OEMs and ODMs. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com/storage . About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment See CPE. . PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Israel and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com . Figure 1: Complete Fibre Channel Storage System Architecture For figures visit: http://www.pmc-sierra.com/pressRoom/pdf/4G_figure.pdf Resources to Extend Your Product Knowledge and Understanding PMC-Sierra Storage Products www.pmc-sierra.com/storage PMC-Sierra New Products www.pmc-sierra.com/products/newProducts.html PMC-Sierra Storage Webinars www.pmc-sierra.com/webinars [c] Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2006. All rights reserved. PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. and Tachyon are registered trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. PMC-SIERRA, PMCS, maxSAS and "Thinking you can Build On" are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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