Chapter 8. ONS 15454 Storage-Area Networking

This chapter covers the following topics:

• SAN Review

• SAN Protocols

• SONET or DWDM?

• Data Storage Mirroring

• A Single-Chassis SAN Extension Solution: ONS 15454

• Storage over Wavelength

• Storage over SONET

• Fibre Channel Multirate 4-Port (FC-MR-4) Card 1G and 2G FC

• Overcoming the Round-Trip Delay Limitation in SAN Networks

• Using VCAT and LCAS

• SAN Protection

Because applications have a great need for storage capacity, the limited internal storage for servers has not been enough over the past few years. As a result, storage capacity has been added externally to the server, and storage-networking protocols have been developed to allow the server to access the external storage devices. With ...

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