RE: Who is doing what

["Don Woelz" <don@genroco.com>]

GENROCO has mapped SCSI on Scheduled Transfer, currently a draft ANSI
T10 standard.  The Schedule Transfer Protocol, also a draft ANSI standard
(passed public review) is defined on IP (and implemented as such by SGI on Linux).
So there is a standards-based solution already existing for SCSI on STP/IP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
> Cameron, Don
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:37 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: Who is doing what
> 
> 
> I 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.
> 
>