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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: SAS2x36
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 March 2008
Expander ICs lay groundwork for 6Gbit/s
SAS
The LSI SAS2x36 is a 36-port 6Gbit/s SAS expander with an integrated ARM processor for topology management functions such as discovery and enclosure services.
LSI has begun sample shipments of 6Gbit/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expander ICs to major OEM customers, further strengthening it leadership position in the SAS market By providing OEMs with samples of its seventh generation expander IC products, LSI is taking the first steps in laying the groundwork for complete 6Gbit/s SAS ecosystems, which the SCSI Trade Association estimates will be available in the second half of 2009
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With our superior development and validation processes and focus on interoperability testing, we are able to provide OEMs with robust 6Gbit/s SAS expanders that reduce risk and lay the early foundation for the SAS-2 infrastructure".
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The LSI SAS2x36 is a 36-port 6Gbit/s SAS expander with an integrated ARM processor for topology management functions such as discovery and enclosure services.
It supports SAS and SATA data transfer rates of 1.5, 3 and 6Gbit/s and incorporates enhanced features such as spread spectrum clocking for EMI reduction, T10-based zoning for network storage security applications, and SAS multiplexing to maximise bandwidth performance to legacy storage devices.
The LSI SAS2x36 SAS expander provides storage environments with the ability to connect multiple hosts and targets through a switched device for scalability and with fault-tolerant path redundancy to improve system reliability ideal for enterprise data centres.
"Enterprises need storage solutions that deliver new levels of performance, reliability and scalability across increasingly diverse applications ranging from retail transactions, to real-time business analytics, to delivery of content on demand", says Richard Villars, Vice President of Storage Systems Research at IDC.
"Technologies, such as 6Gbit/s SAS, will play an important role in meeting these emerging enterprise storage requirements".
"Leading storage solutions providers such as LSI that are making 6Gbit/s SAS products available for interoperability and validation testing will help speed the transition to more powerful storage solutions".
6Gbit/s SAS will provide up to double the transfer rate of 3Gbit/s SAS solutions and offer greater scalability, while also providing new features including expander zoning, spread spectrum clocking and support for the T10 protection information model for greater reliability, decision feedback equalisation for longer cables, and multiplexing.
SAS-2 will also provide customers with investment protection by providing backward compatibility with 3Gbit/s SAS technologies.
Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered market leading products across its portfolio of controller ICs, expanders, host bus and MegaRAID adapters, RAID-on-motherboard solutions and storage systems.
By offering best-in-class SAS technologies, assured interoperability, and single vendor support, LSI is the silicon-to-systems supplier of choice for OEMs that want to deliver a broad set of storage solutions.
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