The Sun StorageTek 4Gb FC ATCA Dual Port HBA is just what Sun telco customers have been asking for to use with the Sun Netra ATCA servers in order to take advantage of the benefits of FC storage consolidation. This HBA accelerates the delivery of the next generation voice, video, and data services and is specifically tailored to fit the needs of the Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and Service Providers (SPs).

The 4Gb Fibre Channel standard offers a 100 percent increase in available link bandwidth. This new model offers up to 40 percent greater transaction processing power, while reducing power consumption by as much as 60 percent, Sun reports.

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• 4Gb/s Fibre Channel link speeds support including automatic speed negotiation with existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel SANs
• Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) form factor
• Enterprise class HBAs ideal for large or mixed OS SAN environments
• Industry's highest performing 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI-Express HBA for ATCA blade form factor, Sun reports
• Enterprise-class I/O connectivity for large or mixed OS SAN environments
• Dual channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel link speeds
• Full fabric support with automatic topology and speed adaptation
• HBA API support (FC-MI) enables simplified SAN management
• Onboard hardware context cache for superior fabric support and high transaction performance
• Support for use of multiple concurrent protocols
• FC service class 2 and 3 support
• FC-Tape (FCP-2) device support
• Simultaneous on card support for remote boot in x64 and SPARC in UNIX environments
• End to end parity protection for high data integrity
• Firmware upgradeable architecture: ability to update HBA features and functionality, which provides customers investment protection
• NEBS Level 3 certified
• Supports both 32- and 64-bit computing

The Sun StorageTek 4Gb FC ATCA HBA supports Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) for SPARC platforms, Solaris 10 OS for x64 platforms, and WindRiver PNE 2.0 Carrier Grade Linux operating system environments. Multi-Pathing I/O capability is supported for these OS environments.

The I/O bus and bus speeds supported include four lanes at 2.5 Gbps per lane, which results in 800MB/sec (half duplex) and 1.6GB/sec (full duplex) peak data transfer at PCI Express bus.

For fibre channel speeds, this HBA supports 400 MBps per channel maximum at half-duplex, 800 MBps maximum per channel at full-duplex.

Up to 2033 FC port logins per port are supported by the Sun StorageTek 4Gb FC ATCA Dual Port HBA. For the Solaris OS, this HBA supports on a per port basis: 125 logins in private loop, 510 logins in fabric topology, and 2048 exchanges. [...read more...]

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