Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: HDMP-0528 PBC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 November 2003
Bypass circuit speeds storage subsystems
A new eight-port bypass circuit features redundant links, diagnostics, and isolation and signal clean-up capabilities for JBOD, RAID or Fibre Channel storage subsystems.
A new eight-port bypass circuit (PBC) device provides 1 or 2Gbit/s operation and features redundant links, diagnostics, and isolation and signal clean-up capabilities for high-speed serial Fibre Channel arbitrated loop signals within JBOD (just a bunch of disks), RAID (redundant array of inexpensive drives) or Fibre Channel storage subsystems The most basic function of the port bypass circuit is to permit individual disk drives to be added to or taken out of the array and "hot swapped" without affecting the operation of the remaining drives or of the overall data storage subsystem
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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