Emulex Corporation launched its next generation InSpeed® Switch on Chip (SOC) 442 Embedded Storage Switch, which has already been adopted by industry-leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The InSpeed SOC 442 further extends Emulex’s broad portfolio of system-level products for the storage system and server blade markets. Emulex has shipped more than 58 million InSpeed embedded switch ports, making it one of the most highly deployed technologies in the storage industry.
The fifth generation InSpeed SOC 442 has already been deployed and is in design at key tier-one storage system OEMs and will be used in root switch, server blade pass-through module, and most importantly, new enclosure controller module (ECM) applications, connecting drives to RAID controllers in storage system backends.“Going forward, technology advancements for enterprise performance class Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD) drives will be focused on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface protocol, creating drives that continue to increase capacity and performance in smaller and more power efficient packages,” said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. “The InSpeed SOC 442 uniquely allows storage system providers to deploy these new drive advancements into existing field-proven system architectures and investments for highly competitive products for years to come.” The InSpeed SOC 442 is Emulex’s solution for SAS drive connectivity at the enclosure controller module level and is the only embedded storage switch available today that natively connects 2.5” small form factor drives in Fibre Channel-based storage systems. This capability uniquely allows storage system providers to leverage existing, field-proven technologies and does not require the deployment of completely new end-to-end SAS-based systems.
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