Storage Area Network (SAN) product vendor Gadzoox Networks today announced it will be demonstrating its 2 Gb Open Fabric SAN switch, Slingshot, at the Fibre Channel Industry Association’s (FCIA) Fibre Channel European User Symposium from June 6-7, 2001 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
According to Gadzoox, Slingshot enables customers to build a complete 2 Gb SAN infrastructure and boosts application performance, which is crucial for streaming media and new applications such as uncompressed high definition video (HDTV). Streaming media and backup applications will be demonstrated at the FCIA-E Mobile Technology Center, Booth 69 and 71. Slingshot will be the only 2 Gb Open Fabric SAN switch participating in this demonstration and will be connected to 2 Gb host bus adapters and 2 Gb storage.