Adapter Features
Performance Specifications
The AB232A HBA offers a highly integrated 2 Gbps Fibre Channel HBA for use in Itanium servers based on the latest
The AB232A HBA also features sophisticated hardware that provides superior performance in SANs and provides best in class server CPU offload. This exclusive hardware delivers low latency and high throughput in switched fabric, arbitrated loop, and clustered environments. Support for fiber optic cabling is provided through an embedded small form factor (LC) optical interface.
The AB232A HBA is both ANSI Fibre Channel and PCI Local Bus Compliant and supports:
■Full duplex 2 Gbps Fibre Channel that provides data transfers of up to 400 MBps.
■Full fabric boot support to multiple LUNs.
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■Storage protocol.
■Fibre Channel class 2 and 3.
■Automatic speed negotiation and topology detection.
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Collectively, these characteristics create a
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