TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Ships 4 Millionth Tachyon Fibre Channel Controller IC.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. -- Industry's Most Widely Used Controller Increases Performance, Reduces Cost for Storage OEMs 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. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced it has shipped more than 4 million 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. Fibre Channel controller ICs since production began in 1995. Agilent's Tachyon protocol controller ICs, the most widely used in the industry, are available in single-, dual-, and four-port configurations at speeds of up to 4 Gb/s. They offer storage OEMs both high levels of performance and reduced board space and costs. This milestone demonstrates the value of both Tachyon and Fibre Channel as leading storage technologies. While there are many storage options, the rate of Fibre Channel SAN solutions is accelerating in both enterprise and small and midsize business market segments. "The Tachyon brand has become an industry standard with more than 5.3 million ports in operation and more than 50 percent market share among disk array manufacturers," said Erik Ottem, marketing director of the Input/Output Solutions Division in Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group. "Agilent's recent introduction of an industry-first 4 Gb/s, four-port Tachyon controller with PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. enables breakthrough bandwidth and IOPS IOPS Input/Output Per Second IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second (server performance measurement) IOPS International Organization of Pension Supervisors IOPS Information Operations Planning System IOPS Internet Official Protocol Standards performance. The QX4 uses the same programming interface as earlier Tachyon products, preserving existing firmware/software investments and speeding time to market." The 4 Gb/s Tachyon dual-port DX4+ and four-port QX4 controllers support 4, 2 and 1 Gb/s data transfer rates and offer an easy upgrade to 4 Gb/s speeds while allowing design re-use for existing customers. Agilent provides an extensive API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. tool set with its Tachyon software development kit, including sample drivers to enable new customers to quickly develop software solutions. Agilent Tachyon controllers are part of the industry's broadest solution set for Fibre Channel, including fiber-optic transceivers, physical layer ICs, board-level solutions and test equipment. The Agilent Tachyon controller's proven state-machine architecture easily scales to 8 and 10 Gb/s. The architecture provides numerous independent functional blocks, which concurrently process inbound data, outbound data, and control and commands in hardware. The result is simultaneous, parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. of inbound data, outbound data, and hardware control and commands to maximize bandwidth and minimize latency and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output overhead. Agilent Storage Networking Solutions Agilent is a leading supplier of 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 $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. 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 800-235-0312, or e-mail us at semiconductorsupport@agilent.com. Further technology, corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. 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