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Finisar Delivers Industry's First 6 Gb/s SAS Error Injector for Storage Product Testing
New Line Rate Enhances Finisar's Industry-Leading Xgig(R) Protocol Tester Solutions
| Source: Finisar
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - April 23, 2008) - Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ : FNSR ), a global
technology leader in fiber optic and test and measurement solutions for
high-speed networks, today announced that it is shipping Xgig® Jammer
2.9, the industry's first 6 Gb/s SAS error injector used for
high-performance testing of storage products. The Xgig® Jammer provides 6
Gb/s SAS protocol testing support to greatly accelerate interoperability
and compliance testing by ensuring that storage products adhere to the
protocol standards. This new product is integrated in to the powerful
Xgig® unified platform which supports all high speed storage protocols
including 8Gb/s Fibre Channel, 10Gb/s Ethernet and iSCSI as well as the
emerging 6Gb/s SAS and SATA offerings.
"Gartner predicts the SAS storage market will grow from roughly 16% of the
worldwide units for multi-user devices in 2007 to more than 41% in 2008.
Not only is this single year growth extraordinary, but SAS becomes the
largest segment overall by the end of the year," said Paul Hansen, vice
president of Network Tools marketing at Finisar. "Finisar is extremely
pleased to be the leader in this market with best-in-class solutions that
accelerate the design and deployment of this compelling technology."
The adoption of 6 Gb/s SAS line rates for storage testing is well underway
as vendors race to offer the latest advances in new storage systems. With
data storage requirements doubling about every two years, IT managers look
for the most efficient means of storage, and SAS solutions provide low
cost, reliability, and performance density. Finisar's Xgig® SAS/SATA
Jammer with 6 Gb/s SAS support provides customers with the latest advances
in storage testing enabling better bandwidth utilization, easier management
mechanisms, and network robustness.
The Xgig® Jammer is a scalable hardware and software solution that places
hardware directly in-line on a SAS/SATA link. The software then speeds up
testing of protocol compliance and 'what-if' scenarios by allowing
user-specified modification of actual network protocol traffic. This
capability allows developers to improve error checking, enable shorter
testing cycles, and speed up time-to-market for their storage products.
Finisar's Xgig® Jammer is available and shipping now. To download a
datasheet for this product or to obtain information about Finisar's other
proven solutions for storage network optimization and management, visit
www.finisar.com, contact a Finisar Solution Expert at 1.408.548.1000, or
send e-mail to: sales@finisar.com.
About Finisar
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ : FNSR ) is a global technology leader for fiber
optic components and subsystems and network test and monitoring systems.
These products enable high-speed voice, video and data communications for
networking, storage and wireless applications over Local Area Networks
(LANs), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
using Ethernet, Fibre Channel, IP, SAS, SATA and SONET/SDH protocols. The
Company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. More information
can be found at www.finisar.com.
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enhanced products; the challenges of rapid growth followed by periods of
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