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Improved Serviceability

One of the greatest problems with legacy loop–based architectures is the ability to quickly isolate and diagnose problems. This situation is now eliminated with InSpeed’s built–in advanced diagnostics and statistics tools. Problems can now be identified more quickly and while storage systems are still active to end users, minimizing system downtime and lowering field service costs. Furthermore, InSpeed Embedded Storage Switches deliver hot–pluggable interface ports that make removing and replacing drive shelves a simple effort, as opposed to having to go through

the significant rewiring efforts loop–based architectures require. Overall, InSpeed–based storage switches can reduce the total cost to service storage in the field by as much as 15%, and allow less sophisticated personnel to perform system diagnosis for faster repair.

Higher System Performance While Scaling Another primary benefit to storage system switched back ends is the ability to scale

the number of disk drive spindles behind an individual storage controller and not encounter performance degradation. InSpeed Embedded Storage Switches deliver up to three times the performance of shared loop architectures as the storage system scales to higher numbers of drives. The number of IOPs per MB of storage can now stay constant, regardless of drive and capacity scale. Based on a wire speed non– blocking Crossbar switch core that dynamically handles multiple simultaneous conversations at 2 or 1Gb/s performance across all ports, the switch has a total bandwidth of 80Gb/s. Because

InSpeed delivers multiple direct port–to–port connections, congestion typically found in shared loop architectures is eliminated and performance is made consistent especially as storage systems scale to additional drives and capacities, and when storage systems are running advanced processes like remote mirroring, remote replication, remote backup or rebuilding activities.

InSpeed Embedded Storage Switches are packed with standard advanced performance while scaling enabling features. Fairness and Prioritization ensure devices communicating with each other have guaranteed access

to all devices in the system, or explicitly gives prioritized access over other devices. And Automatic Trunking fully multiplies load–balanced bandwidth between InSpeed Embedded Storage Switches and/or InSpeed SOCs in fully switched infrastructures and provides dynamic path failover protection. Up to 5x performance while scaling improvements over shared loop infrastructures are possible.

Faster Time to Market

InSpeed Embedded Storage Switches deliver a 6 to 18 month time to market improvement over proprietary in–house developed architectures using port bypass circuits because InSpeed is a drop–in solution that has been tested and field deployed by numerous leading storage system providers. Testing and validation has been performed in numerous configurations using InSpeed storage switches to ensure they are fully reliable and market ready.