| Ultra-Wideband Recording Stretches to Keep Up With Digitizers |
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advertisement: High speed switching SAN technology has also advanced with the use of 4Gbps Fibre Channel. While Fibre Channel offers real advantages in terms of the possible SAN topologies, without a good switch implementation many of those topologies are hard to physically realize. A new generation of SAN switch platforms, such as the QLogic SANbox series, can help in constructing a scalable storage area network. The SANbox offers features such as auto-detecting Fibre Channel ports, high-speed 10 Gbps links for expanding units in a stack, configuration and zoning wizards, and a non-blocking switch architecture for high performance. By implementing a fast fabric switch, the SAN can connect a set of data recording engines to a set of storage arrays, creating a very large, scalable solution. This also allows for very high reliability recording with redundancy built into the SAN, and virtually limitless storage.Streaming Storage Arrays Several elements have gone into making faster streaming storage arrays, but two are particularly noteworthy: FibreChannel disk interfaces, and the use of RAID technology. |
