Compaq LP8000-F1 manual Performance Specifications, Standards

1-4Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit PCI-To-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter User Guide

Performance Specifications

The HBA is a high-performance I/O solution for applications such as client/server configurations, database I/O environments, multimedia applications, and imaging technologies. Each of these requires high-level throughput with low-latency characteristics.

The HBA is both ANSI Fibre Channel and PCI Local Bus Compliant and supports:

■Full PCI bus speed data transfers of 133 MBytes/sec

■Point-to-point arbitrated-loop, and switch fabric FC connections

■Storage protocol

■Fibre channel class 1, 2, 3

■Direct interface to fibre optical cables through an embedded SC type short-wave multi-mode connection

Collectively, these characteristics create a high-performance fibre channel

HBA.

Standards

The HBA conforms to the following standards:

■ANSI Fibre Channel FC-PH, Revision 4.3

■ANSI Fibre Channel FC-AL, Revision 4.5

■PCI Local Bus, Revision 2.0/2.1

■Fibre Channel Class 1, 2, 3