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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Who is doing whatI am trying to figure out who the players are in the storage over IP arena. >From following the discussions here, and reading the trade rags, I have come up with the following. Please let me know where I am wrong: The IP Storage Working Group (IBM, Cisco, HP, Adaptec, Quantum, EMC, and others) Mapping of SCSI to TCP. All agree that TCP is appropriate for WAN. A majority advocate TCP for both LAN and WAN, a minority advocate a lighter-weight transport protocol for LAN only. Adaptec: EtherStorage Mapping of SCSI to light-weight transport protocol specifically designed for LAN only. Uses SEP (SCSI Encapsulation Protocol). Nishan: SoIP (Storage Over IP) Can't find much detail here. Gadzoox and Lucent: Fibre Channel over IP. Proposal is to use IP to bridge between FC SANs for MANs (and WANs?). SAN, Ltd: SSCOP (Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol) Route storage data over IP (UDP?) using the data link protocol from ATM that allows selective re-transmission.
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