SANbox Shouts "Ancor Aweigh!".Ancor Communications, Inc. released its new SANbox series of Fibre Channel switches Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
adj. 1. Functioning in more than one stage: a multistage design project. 2. Relating to or composed of two or more propulsion units. multiswitch architecture, which enables enterprise customers to grow SAN fabrics to thousands of devices. "Data storage needs are doubling every nine months, driven by the growth of Internet computing and transaction processing systems like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ," said Cal Nelson, president of Ancor. "That's why it makes sense to install a SAN that can scale beyond a handful of devices and a few terabytes of data. Thanks to [the company's] Multistage configuration and switch latency, our [Fibre Channel] switches make it easy to grow SANs with no loss of performance." Ancor Communications, Inc. is marketing its switches to end users through systems integrators and 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 customers. The products include: Eight-port and 16-port switches, shipping immediately The new 64-port switches include Director for enterprise data centers, which will ship early 2000. Ancor Communications will also offer a 128-port configuration later in 2000. The new product's SL, an eight-port starter switch that is software-upgrade-able to full fabric support, shipping now to Sun Microsystems and MTI MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) Technology The heart of the product's switch technology is a fifth-generation custom ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Chip) developed by Ancor and designed for performance in storage networking applications. The four-port ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. includes the functionality needed to support the company's Multistage architecture, which enables customers to add switches to a growing SAN fabric without loss of performance or risk of failure. Although other architectures are also supported, they lack this flexibility. |
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