Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: Tachyon QX4
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 April 2005
Fibre Channel controller boasts
breakthrough
Agilent Technologies will demonstrate the breakthrough performance of its industry-first 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel controller at Storage Networking World in Phoenix, Arizona.
Agilent Technologies will demonstrate the breakthrough performance of its industry-first 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel controller on Booth C1 at Storage Networking World in Phoenix, Arizona, from 12th to 15th April The demonstration will show the Agilent Tachyon QX4 delivering up to 1.3 million input/output per second and 2.7Gbyte/s bandwidth over four Fibre Channel ports with native PCI Express
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We are very pleased with achieving the industry's highest input/output per second and bandwidth performance results using the Tachyon QX4", said Erik Ottem, Marketing Director of the Input/Output Solutions Division in Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group.
"Agilent continues to distance itself from the competition with the Tachyon QX4, the second member of Agilent's growing 4Gbit/s controller family".
At the conference, Agilent will demonstrate performance up to 1.3 million input/output per second and 2.7Gbyte/s bandwidth over four Fibre Channel ports with native PCI Express.
The Tachyon QX4 will be configured as a host server/initiator that transmits and receives 4Gbit/s data through a 4Gbit/s fabric switch.
The configuration will use Agilent 4Gbit/s SFP (small form factor pluggable) fibre-optic transceivers connected to three target mode servers.
Two of the target mode servers will use two Agilent DX4+ Fibre Channel controllers.
The third target mode server will use a single Tachyon QX4 Fibre Channel controller.
All servers will be powered by a single 3.6GHz Xeon processor running Agilent's test software and measuring 512byte initiator reads. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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