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  3. May 2004

Re: Locating tape drives a distance away from the CPU

At one of our user group meetings I am sure they said it could be miles away. Check out

http://www-8.ibm.com/storage/au/ibmsan/products/2031/prod_data/g225-6978.html


McDATA Viper SAN engine serial cross bar technology is designed to deliver scalable, non-blocking switch performance. Each port delivers up to 200MB/sec, full-duplex data transfer. Full throughput at extended distances up to 100 kilometres (60 miles) is enabled with longwave optics, 60 buffer credits per port and repeaters.


I'm in the investigation stages of looking at an alternative data center.
It's a co-location type of facility that is 2 miles from the current site.
One of the things I was trying to think through (for various reasons) was
to have our CPU's located at this facility but look at leaving our tape
drives located where they are currently. With 3581 and 3590 technology is
this something that can even be considered? Anyone have any experience in
that?





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