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| McDATA's New 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Director Capability McDATA Corporation has announced the ability to lower TCO (total cost of ownership) through storage network consolidation and increased data movement speeds with the introduction of the non-disruptive 4 Gb/s QPM Blade for Intrepid 6140 Directors. Meeting McDATA's customer driven standards for solutions that help consolidate, optimize and protect data, the new 4 Gb/s director technology enables customers to back up their existing data sets in nearly half the time it previously took with 2 Gb/s technology. The 4 Gb/s blade also has the same distance support as 2 Gb/s solutions, which will enable customers to deploy increased bandwidth without adding costly repeaters. McDATA continues to provide customers the most flexible platforms for building their storage area networks by being the first vendor to offer the full line of Fibre Channel speeds - 1-, 2-, 4- and 10 Gb/s - while allowing customers to continue to leverage their existing technology investments. In addition to allowing faster backups, the increased bandwidth will also benefit data intensive applications like geophysical mapping and video processing. 4 Gb/s technology enables ISL consolidation for intra-SAN communication, reducing the cable count between directors and thus management costs and the chance of failure. Customers do not need to purchase a new director or new control processors to deploy McDATA's 4 Gb/s technology. McDATA's 4 Gb/s blade offering can be introduced into any existing Intrepid 6140 Director non-disruptively with the granularity to better align with customers' business needs and budgetary requirements. Customers can convert ports to 4 Gb/s throughput speeds in four-port increments to avoid costly and disruptive wide-scale forklift upgrades. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |