QLogic's Fibre Channel Adapter First to Pass SANMark

Costa Mesa, CA-based N/A, a designer of high-performance I/O controllers and storage area network (SAN) products, announced this week it is the first manufacturer of Fibre Channel host adapters to pass the SANMark interoperability test with its QLA2200F adapter. SANMark is a program designed by the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) to ensure Fibre Channel device interoperability in a heterogeneous SAN environment.

As Fibre Channel evolves from simple box-to-box connections to a switched fabric heterogeneous SAN environment, interoperability benchmarks like SANMark become critical. The testing program provides several levels of Fibre Channel compliance testing required for reliable, high-speed communication for equipment that includes host adapters, hubs, switches, storage subsystems, and SCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridges.

QLogic designed its QLA2200 host adapter family from the ground up with interoperability in mind. The QLA2200F offers SAN features such as support for Fibre Channel SCSI (FCP-SCSI) and IP protocols.

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (Durham, NH), where the testing took place, is an independent test facility involved in R&D work that is open to the vendor community to verify product interoperability.

More information regarding the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab can be found at http://www.iol.unh.edu/.