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SANbox 6142 Intelligent Storage Router




Connecting SANs over WANs

 The SANbox 6142 uses QLogic’s patent pending SmartWrite™ technology to improve the speed, efficiency and reliability of linking SANs over WANs. Improving data replication, data protection and enhancing the ability of IT mangers to meet growing regulatory requirements related to business continuance. The SANbox 6142 supports leading data replication applications and can improve their operations by 60% of tradition long-haul communications. This enables IT mangers to reduce the cost of telecommunication to protect data in their current environments.

Supports Leading Replications Applications:
• EMC MirrorView
• EMC SANCopy
• HDS TrueCopy
• And More...

Based on QLogic’s unique SmartWrite™ routing technology, the SANbox 6142 is a true bi-directional router that provides connection of single or multi-vendor FC SAN Islands over long distances and brings iSCSI Servers and iSCSI Storage into FC SAN at exceptionally low cost and performance.

Breakthrough Ease of Use
• Console based SANSurfer™ router manager manages multiple SANbox 6000 series   multi-protocol routers from a single console
• Installation wizards with intuitive user interfaces to expedite installation and configuration
• CLI that can be scripted to allow configuration management of multiple SANbox 6142s

Key Features
• SmartWrite®technology
• Dual 2Gbps FC ports
• Dual 1Gbps iSCSI Ethernet ports
• Dual management ports: serial & Ethernet
• Support for iSCSI, FCP-SCSI
• Configuration wizards for ease of installation
• Support for Ethernet Jumbo frames and VLAN
• SNMP and SMI-S agents
• Inter-operable with all FC-SW-2 compliant FC switches
• Support for configuring up to
         - 62 Servers (FC or iSCSI) and Targets (FC or iSCSI) locally or remotely
         - Console based GUI

SmartWrite® technology (Patent pending)
SmartWrite™ is a unique technology developed by QLogic to reduce the number of round trip delays to a single round trip delay associated with “Write” operation over long distances. It also provides Hi-Fn based data compression for low bandwidth WAN links. Thus, SANbox 6142 substantially improves data replication performance over long distances.

Flexible Connection Choices
• Multi-vendor FC SAN to FC SAN over long distances using SCSI Layer Routing
• Connecting iSCSI Storage & iSCSI Servers to FC SAN
• FCIP
• Allows for routing between multi-vendor FC SAN

Performance & Interoperability
• SmartWrite®, which is licensable feature available in the SANbox 6142, provides breakthrough data replication performance over low band-width connections including Gibgabit Ethernet links

Powered by proven QLogic iSCSI and Fibre Channel ASICs
• Protocol processing in hardware for better performance
• Interoperates with server and storage products from all major OEMs

OS support for iSCSI servers
• Windows 2003, Linux, RedHat, SuSE, Solaris, VMWare, MAC OSX-10



For additional information, options and pricing about our ThinkCP™ products,
please contact our sales representatives - (800)726-2477 or email -
SalesDesk AT ThinkCP.com


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