HHBA-5418 Datasheet, PDF (1/3 Pages) Agilent(Hewlett-Packard) – Low Profile, 2 Gb/s, Dual Port PCI-X to Fibre Channel Adapters

Agilent HHBA-5418, HHBA-5420
Low Profile, 2 Gb/s, Dual Port PCI-X
to Fibre Channel Adapters
Product Overview
Product Description
The HHBA-5418/20 are Agilent’s
low profile, 2 Gb/s, dual-port PCI-X
to Fibre Channel Adapters for high
performance storage area net-
works and clustering environ-
ments. These products feature two
independent fibre channel ports
and a PCI-X interface for increased
connectivity and higher band-
width. The low profile host adapt-
ers are specifically designed for
use in 1U and 2U servers.
Performance and Scalability
Based on Agilent’s Tachyon DX2
single-chip Fibre Channel
controller, the HHBA-5418/20
eliminate performance bottlenecks
and inter-operability issues
associated with dual-port adapters
using multi-chip controllers and
PCI-to-PCI bridge implementa-
tions. Agilent’s proven Finite State
Machine (FSM) architecture 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.
The combination of Agilent’s 2 Gb
Fibre Channel technology and
133 MHz PCI-X delivers unparal-
leled performance, scalability and
connectivity. The HHBA-5418 and
HHBA-5420 products accommodate
1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s fibre channel
devices without hardware modifi-
cation, preserving investments in
legacy systems as well as allowing
seamless migration toward new
2 Gb/s SAN installations.
Compatible with SAN environments
The HHBA-5418/20 ensures full
backward compatibility with
33/66 MHz PCI while providing a
smooth upgrade path to the next
generation, 133 MHz PCI-X.
Features
• Low profile, MD2 short card
• Two independent 2 Gb/s Fibre
Channel ports for a combined
bandwidth of 800 MB/s
• 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X
– Up to 1 GB/s PCI-X bus transfer
speed
– Backward compatible with
33/66 MHz PCI
– 3.3V PCI/PCI-X
• Auto speed negotiation at 1 or
2 Gb/s
• LED speed link indicator
• Loop and fabric support
• FC class 3
• Supports fibre channel arbitrated
loop (FC-AL) including public loop
and fabric (F- and FL-port login)
• Optical and copper media
interfaces
– HHBA-5418/20: Small Form
Factor Pluggable (SFP) for either
optical transceiver or copper
connector
Applications
• Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Clustering
• Back-up
• Near on-line storage
• Video editing and CAD
• Data mining
• Data warehousing
• OLTP
• RAID and JBOD