LSI First to Sample 6Gb/s SAS Expanders to OEMs
March 05 2008 - 5:18PM
PR Newswire (US)
Major OEMs sampling new 6Gb/s SAS expander from LSI to gain
time-to-market advantage on the path to 6Gb/s SAS infrastructures
MILPITAS, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE:LSI) today announced the industry's first sample shipments of
6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expander ICs to major OEM
customers, further strengthening its leadership position in the SAS
market. By providing OEMs with samples of its second generation SAS
expander IC products, LSI is laying the groundwork for complete
6Gb/s SAS ecosystems, which the SCSI Trade Association estimates
will be available in the second half of 2009. "Serial Attached SCSI
has penetrated both the server and storage markets and volumes of
3Gb/s SAS solutions are still ramping," said Bill Wuertz, senior
vice president of LSI Storage Components Group. "While LSI
continues to provide and augment our industry leading portfolio of
3Gb/s SAS products to serve this market, we're also looking to the
future. With our superior development and validation processes and
focus on interoperability testing, we are able to provide OEMs with
robust 6Gb/s SAS expanders that reduce risk and lay the early
foundation for the SAS-2 infrastructure." The LSI SAS2x36 is a
36-port 6Gb/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 6Gb/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 maximize
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 today's enterprise data centers.
"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," said Richard
Villars, vice president of storage systems research at IDC.
"Technologies, such as 6 Gb/s SAS, will play an important role in
meeting these emerging enterprise storage requirements. Leading
storage solutions providers such as LSI that are making 6 Gb/s SAS
products available for interoperability and validation testing will
help speed the transition to more powerful storage solutions."
6Gb/s SAS will provide up to double the transfer rate of 3Gb/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 Equalization for longer cables, and
multiplexing. SAS-2 will also provide customers with investment
protection by providing backward compatibility with 3Gb/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(R) 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. About LSI LSI Corporation
(NYSE:LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and
software technologies that enable products, which seamlessly bring
people, information and digital content together. The company
offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including
custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software
that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading
solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information
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