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Router Capabilities

The iSR6142 is a bi-directional FC-to-iSCSI router. It supports the following topologies:

„Two remote SAN islands (single or multi-vendor fabrics) (see page 2-4)

„Local connectivity (see page 2-6)

„FC SAN islands (single or multi-vendor fabrics)

„iSCSI Servers to FC SAN

„FC servers to iSCSI SAN

„FCIP – Fibre Channel over IP (see page 2-6)

When using the iSR6142 to connect two Fibre Channel SANs, E-ports are not required on the Fibre Channel switches. This allows you to connect multi-vendor FC SANs (switches) without concern for the compatibility of the E-Ports and/or N-Ports between different switch vendors.

The iSR6142 has the following optional features:

„SmartWrite™ – Provides write performance improvements.

„Additional Server/Ports – Provides additional connectivity (see page 2-3).

Licensed Features

The iSR6142 router has two features that are available by a license key:

„SmartWrite

„Additional Server/Ports

SmartWrite

When connecting SAN over long distances, round-trip delays create significant impact to the performance. Typically, data writes involve two or more round-trip latencies that create a significant barrier to the data replication performance.

SmartWrite technology is designed to minimize the round-trip latency of any write I/O to a single round-trip latency.

This Feature Key offers the following benefits:

„Minimizes round-trip delays for any data write operation to a single round-trip latency.

„Allows load balancing over multiple IP links.

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ISR6142 specifications

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