RE: Regarding Adaptec's storage over Ethernet demonstration at N+I

["VonStamwitz, Paul" <paulv@corp.adaptec.com>]

The link to the SEP draft is
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wilson-sep-00.txt

> 
> 
> Some of you may be wondering about Adaptec's announcement 
> regarding its
> technology demonstration of storage over ethernet at N+I this week.
> 
> http://www.adaptec.com/adaptec/press/release000504.html
> 
> The demo shows a Gb ethernet controller transporting SCSI 
> traffic to several
> targets through an off-the-shelf 100TX switch with a Gb 
> uplink. The targets
> are ethernet to U160 SCSI bridges with one or more SCSI 
> drives attached. The
> host controller runs under NT4.0 at appears to the OS as a 
> SCSI host bus
> adapter.
> 
> The architecture is based on Adaptec's SCSI Encapsulation 
> Protocol (SEP).
> SEP is mapped on top of TCP/IP or a light-weight transport protocol
> specifically designed for SANs.
> 
> An SEP overview was presented at the IPS BOF in Adelaide last 
> month and an
> internet draft on SEP was submitted to IETF this week. I will 
> forward the
> link as soon as it becomes available. This draft is 
> informational only and
> intended to aid in this group's work toward an industry standard SCSI
> transport protocol over IP networks.
> 
> I will continue to keep this group informed of any more 
> information as soon
> as it becomes publicly available.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul von Stamwitz
> Adaptec, Inc.
> paulv@corp.adaptec.com
>