Product category: Optoelectronics
News Release from: Finisar Corp | Subject: 6Gbyte/s SAS/SATA analyser and tester
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 March 2007
Testing platform for
all major storage protocols
6Gbyte/s SAS/SATA (Serial Attached SCSI/Serial ATA) analyser and tester is incorporated into the Xgig testing platform
Finisar has introduced the 6Gbyte/s SAS/SATA (Serial Attached SCSI/Serial ATA) analyser and tester, which is incorporated into the company's Xgig testing platform. This testing platform provides critical monitoring, analysis, and testing of products and systems for all major storage protocols including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SAS/SATA.
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Xgig provides both multiprotocol support and line-rate monitoring up to 10 Gbyte/s.
Additionally, the tool offers enhanced triggering capabilities, data tapping with nominal impact on signal quality, and a trace buffer of up to 16GByte.
These combined capabilities simplify both problem identification and resolution, reducing design time and improving time to market.
SAS and SATA are emerging protocols which replace older disk drive standards and are expected to grow into a multi-billion dollar hard-disk-drive market.
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As networks become increasingly complex it becomes even more critical to ensure that mixed SAN environments operate in a co-ordinated and efficient manner.
Introducing new protocols into existing Fibre Channel SANs creates multiprotocol environments that increase network complexity and make it difficult for developers to identify and troubleshoot problems.
The 6Gbyte/s Xgig analyser and tester allows developers to directly and easily correlate interactions among the leading storage protocols, enabling tracing of commands as they cross devices and protocols.
Xgig's enhanced triggering capabilities capture traces throughout the SAN, providing a wider correlation to facilitate more comprehensive identification and faster location of problem sources.
Xgig then fine tunes the diagnostic information collected, resulting in faster problem resolution.
Xgig can acquire SAS/SATA traffic with nominal impact on signal quality based on its innovative data tapping technology, thus minimising its intrusiveness on SAN operations.
'We are excited to bring forward a break-through product that addresses every major storage protocol at every line speed, including the latest 6Gbyte/s SAS/SATA standard, in a robust, unified platform', says Paul Hansen, Vice President of Marketing for Finisar.
'Competitive test platforms can typically support only a single storage protocol at a time, requiring a separate analyser for each protocol in use'.
'This increases production costs and lengthens overall design and development cycles'.
'Our heritage and expertise in high-speed serial protocols and more importantly, the ability to support multiple protocols in a single platform, provides our customers with investment protection and a critical edge in today's competitive environment'.
The Xgig storage test tool platform with 6 Gbyte/s SAS/SATA analyser and tester is currently sampling.
Orders can be placed now for delivery in May 2007.
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