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McDATA 的名字也许很多人并不熟悉,但对已实施 SAN 的大型企业用户来说,对 McDATA 的产品应该不会陌生。2001年,McDATA 公司总共付运了全球91%的光纤通道导引器(Director)端口产品,光纤交换机产品也占据了7%份额。与交换机在企业网络中的作用一样,光纤交换机是被称为第二网的 SAN 中的核心交换设备。而 McDATA认为其光纤信道导引器产品则是可以满足企业数据中心严格要求的高端产品,与光纤交换机相比,其光纤信道导引器产品全部采用双冗余结构,有5个9的可靠性(99.999%正常操作时间),而且有能力处理大型主机
McDATA’s name may not be familiar to many people, but it should be familiar to McDATA’s products to large corporate users who have implemented SANs. In 2001, McDATA shipped a total of 91% of Fiber Channel Director port products worldwide, and Fiber Channel products also accounted for 7%. As with switches in corporate networks, fabric switches are the core switching fabric in a SAN called a second network. McDATA believes that its Fiber Channel director products are high-end products that meet the stringent requirements of enterprise data centers. Compared with Fiber Channel switches, all of its Fiber Channel director products adopt a dual redundant architecture with five 9-bit reliability (99.999% uptime) and the ability to handle mainframes