Atto Fibrebridge Provides Storage Options; Atto Fibrebridge 2370E Features, Benefits - ATTO Technology FibreBridge 2370E Installation And Operation Manual

1.0 ATTO FibreBridge provides storage options

The ATTO FibreBridge
boards, stand alone enclosures that can be fitted for rack mount integration, or desktop units.
Fibre Channel is a serial communications
technology designed to transfer large amounts of
data between a variety of hardware systems over
long distances. It is a key technology for
applications that require shared, high bandwidth
access to storage.
Fibre Channel provides a logical point-to-point
serial channel for the transfer of data between a
buffer at a source device and a buffer at a
destination device. It moves buffer contents from
one port to another, without regard to the format
or meaning of the data, so different upper level

ATTO FibreBridge 2370E features, benefits

The ATTO FibreBridge 2370E is a Fibre
Channel-to-SCSI bridge that offers a high-
performance architecture supporting next-
generation storage media. The FibreBridge
2370E allows users with SCSI storage to add
Fibre Channel connectivity, enabling SAN
connectivity for the storage system. With
industry-leading support for 4-Gigabit Fibre
Channel and Ultra320 SCSI, the FibreBridge
2370E provides the throughput required by
advanced storage media in an embeddable
form factor for easy integration into SCSI
devices.
• One 4-Gb Fibre Channel port which auto-
negotiates to 1-Gb, 2-Gb or 4-Gb Fibre Channel
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family of products provides Fibre Channel-to-SCSI bridges as embeddable
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protocols are able to run over Fibre Channel
hardware.
All ATTO FibreBridge models can be used in a
SAN (Storage Area Network) to connect a variety
of Fibre Channel and SCSI devices. A SAN is a
shared storage architecture connecting computers
and storage devices for online data access. Each
connected system can directly access any attached
storage device.
The ATTO FibreBridge provides the interface
between SCSI and Fibre Channel resources in
SANs. Possible configurations depend upon your
current hardware.
• SFP Fibre Channel connector
• Support for direct connect to F-port fabric
switches, full duplex FC data transfers and FC-
AL, PLDA and public loop login
• Two independent Ultra320 SCSI connections
using standard 68-pin internal SCSI connectors
• Backward compatible with all single-ended SCSI
devices and previous SCSI protocols
• Manual and auto SCSI device mapping
• 200 MB/sec. maximum throughput
• ExpressNAV™ integrated management console
for remote configuration, management and
diagnostic capabilities
• Supports SCSI hard disk drives, tape drives and
CD libraries
• RoHS compliant