Bridgeworks helps Fibre Channel get SASsy

New architecture adds another cost-effective storage interconnect solution to data storage connectivity specialist's portfolio

25th September 2007

Christchurch, UK - Data storage connectivity pioneer Bridgeworks has announced the launch of the Tamar FSAS4400 Fibre Channel to SAS Bridge just one month after it launched the world's first iSCSI to SAS Bridge: This marks the next step in a major expansion of the Bridgework's product range. These new products share a common platform which has been designed to support the rapid adoption of new protocols together with those that already exist including iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SCSI and SAS. The new Multi Protocol Platform Architecture (MPP) also enables the rapid adaptation of products to meet specialised OEM needs.

With its high performance and reliability, SAS is becoming the connectivity format of choice for the enterprise, and the Bridgeworks' FSAS4400 is ideal for those customers, end users and OEMs wishing to use this technology in or to extend a Fibre Channel fabric environment.

What is Tamar FSAS4400?

Bridgeworks Tamar FSAS4400 enables user to connect SAS enabled devices such as Disk Arrays, Tape Drives and Tape Libraries to FC SANs using the fibre channel protocol.

David Trossell, CEO of Bridgeworks comments, “We now see the industry move from parallel to serial connectivity accelerating allowing customers to maintain performance, while taking the advantage that the new technology brings. This is also an important development for OEM markets - tape libraries primarily, but hopefully optical vendors will also see the pulse. The Bridgeworks' approach to connectivity allows vendors to use one core tape or optical technology but easily provide different SAN interfaces within the same internal interconnect structure.”

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Overview of the revolutionary Common Platform Architecture

The MPP approach gives Bridgeworks a Lego-style building block approach to its product design. The use of a common core together with modular software and hardware allows differing protocols to be implemented allowing a myriad of different product configurations and offers a high degree of flexibility for OEM customers.

Pricing and availability

The Tamar FSAS4400 Fibre Channel to SAS Bridge is available to resellers via Bridgeworks' distributors from early Q4.

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About Bridgeworks

Bridgeworks has over twenty five years experience of providing innovative connectivity solutions to both OEMs and end users in the storage market.

Bridgeworks solutions help end users to maximise the return on their investments in storage infrastructures and storage devices. They offer the highest levels of performance, reliability, flexibility and unmatched value.

The company has developed a wide range of solutions for OEMs and integrators that reduce time to market as well as enhancing their own product offerings.

From their UK base, Bridgeworks has helped businesses worldwide in government, education, financial and other vertical sectors to adopt the latest connectivity standards by making their existing storage systems compatible with evolving technologies such as Fibre Channel, SCSI, SAS and iSCSI without disruption and with minimal investment.