HHBA-5218 Datasheet, PDF (1/4 Pages) Agilent(Hewlett-Packard) – Low Profile, 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters for High Performance Applications

Agilent HHBA-5218, HHBA-5219
Low Profile, 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters
for High Performance Applications
Product Overview
Product Description
Agilent’s HHBA-5218 and
HHBA-5219 are low profile,
2 Gb/s, 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI to
Fibre Channel Adapters for
enterprise Storage Area Network
(SAN) applications. The low
profile Fibre Channel Adapters
provide auto-speed negotiation
for seamless integration in one
and two Gigabit environments.
The low profile adapters are
specifically designed for use in
1U and 2U servers. The versatil-
ity of the new Fibre Channel
Adapters is based on Agilent’s
market-leading Tachyon Fibre
Channel (FC) controllers, offer-
ing unmatched performance and
flexibility.
Broad Product Offering
Agilent’s low profile 2 Gb/s
adapters support both fiber-optic
and copper cable connections.
For high-end applications where
performance and reliability are
critical, the HHBA-5219 comes
with a Small Form Factor (SFF)
embedded LC optical transceiver
for use with mutimode optical
cable. For applications requiring
either an optical or copper
interface, the HHBA-5218
includes a cage (receptacle) for a
Small Form Factor Pluggable
(SFP) LC optical or an HSSDC-2
copper transceiver.
Scalable Performance Matches
Demanding SAN Requirements
The 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters
are powered by Agilent Tachyon
controllers, based on a Finite State
Machine (FSM) architecture. The
FSM allows performance to scale
seamlessly with increased server
CPU power. By contrast, processor-
based adapters are limited by the
maximum performance of the
processor itself.
Software Support
Agilent offers a Tachyon
Software Developer’s Kit (TSDK)
for Windows NT® 4.0, Linux
environments and VXWorks.
Features
• Low profile, MD2 short card
• 64-bit, 66 MHz universal PCI
interface (2.2 compliant)
• Fibre channel data transfer rates:
– Up to 200 MB/s (half duplex)
– Up to 400 MB/s (full duplex)
• Auto speed negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
• LED link speed indicator
• Loop and fabric boot BIOS, EFI
support
• FC class 2 and 3
• FC tape class 3
• Supports fibre channel arbitrated
loop (FC-AL) including public loop
and fabric (F- and FL-port login)
• Copper and optical media
interfaces
– HHBA-5218: Small Form Factor
Pluggable (SFP) cage
– HHBA-5219: Small Form Factor
(SFF) LC optical transceiver
Applications
• Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Clustering
• Back-up
• Near on-line storage
• Video editing and CAD
• Data mining
• Data warehousing
• OLTP
• RAID and JBOD