Fibre Channel Testers
Introduction
Fibre Channel testers will be needed to test both low level protocol functions
(such as Link Initialization) as well as high-level protocol functions
such as SCSI protocols.
Devices
There are several manufacturers of Fibre Channel testers:
ANCOT Corporation
The ANCOT Fibre Channel Analyzer,
Model FCA-5000 is a tool for development, integration, and repair of
Fibre Channel based systems. This instrument attaches nonintrusively to
both fibres (In & Out) of the fibre link to monitor and record all
activity. When recording is stopped, it can play back and portray on the
screen every facet of information about activity on the fibre link. The
display format is in plain English for ease of understanding. Packaged
in a transportable enclosure, it is well suited for work in the laboratory
as well as for field applications where versatility and high reliability
are important.
Contact: Ancot Corporation, 115 Constitution
Drive, Menlo park, California 94025, Tel: +1 415 322 5322, Fax: +1 415
322 0455
Finisar Corporation
The GLA-2000 from Finisar
Corporation tests a complete high speed serial communications link
from parallel data transmitted to parallel data received. It stimulates
the parallel interface with words up to 40 bits wide and aggregate data
rates up to 1.25 Gbps.
Contact: Finisar Corporation, Mountain View, CA; Tel: +1 415-691-4000;
Fax: +1 415-691-4010; E-m: sales@finisar.com or tech_info@finisar.com
I-Tech
I-tech, I-tech
contact information - 25-Aug-1997
KFKI/RMKI
Fibre Channel Tester
The Fibre
Channel tester and analyser that has been developed in a collaboration
between CERN, RMKI and Hewlett-Packard/Geneva is portable and cheap. Up
to four test boxes can be controlled by a personal computer via a PCMCIA
interface, making up a complex test system. This test system has several
working modes: single and double line monitor, signal generator, N_Port
emulator, fabric tester and fabric emulator. It can help the hardware and
software development of N_Ports and F_Ports using correct and corrupted
FC data bytes, data words, ordered sets, frames and protocols. It can also
be used for testing upper level protocols, such as IP and SCSI. The tester
can emulate different data sources for the development of FC equipment
(data acquisition systems, event builders, etc.) used in high energy physics
laboratories. It uses the 266 MBaud data transmission speed and can have
electrical, LED and laser signal interfaces.
Extra information:
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Two page flyer (PostScript 167 KB)
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Ten page paper presentation given at Conference
for Microprocessor Applications (PostScript 375 KB)
Fibre Channel Pre-processor
The KFKI-RMKI
Fibre Channel Preprocessor is a portable instrument that can be used
together with the Logic Analyzers of HP to monitor the data transfer between
FC devices. Numerous data acquisition and triggering modes allow capturing
and storing of any type of correct or corrupted FC frames and Ordered Sets.
Contact: Gyorgy Rubin, Detector
Section KFKI - RMKI, Research Institute for Solid State Physics, H-1525
Budapest, POB 49, Hungary, E-m: Rubin@cern.ch, Tel: +361 169 65 75, Fax:
+361 169 53 80
Xyratex
Contact: Xyratex - 17-Jul-1997
CERN - High Speed Interconnect
- FCS
Erik van der Bij - 25 August
1997 - Disclaimer