Tape Drive Compatibility Question

I've been trying to find a definitive answer to this for several months... 
Basically, the boss wants to be able to use a shared tape drive with a NAS 
appliance and our iSeries.

We are looking for LTO3 (either 3581 or possibly 3584)
Current iSeries is 820 at V5R3 and are in the process of planning for a 
570 upgrade this year
NAS appliance is a NetApp server located 30 miles from data center
NAS appliance will need to use NDMP to send the data back to data center 
over ethernet (pretty big pipe - METS connection I think...)

The question is this:

Can we get a fibre attached LTO3 drive for the iSeries plugged into a 
fibre switch and then use a fibre media converter (to convert the gig 
ethernet NAS backup to fibre) and connect it into the same fibre switch 
and save the data to the shared tape drive with the iSeries?

Thanks in advance!

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
IBM Certified Associate Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
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