BR-2401 Embedded Storage Bridge


Key Features

Fibre Channel Port Features

  • Dual FC ports
  • 1, 2, and 4Gb/s full-duplex operation
  • Private/Public Loop support
  • Class 3
  • Hard and soft device addressing

SATA-II Features

  • One SATA port with auto-speed negotiation
  • SATA-II NCQ
  • 1.5 and 3Gb/s operation

The BR-2401 is a highly integrated, state-of-the-art Fibre Channel (FC) to Serial ATA (SATA) Embedded Storage Bridge. The BR-2401, which may be deployed as a chip- or circuit board-level solution, provides transparent canister-level emulation of FC disk drives to achieve a versatile, high-performance, low-cost storage solution that is ideally suited to meet the demands of the enterprise storage market.

The BR-2401 enables SATA Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) to be inserted into any FC drive slots and be mixed with FC disk drive shelves within a storage system, either a modular JBOD or an integrated RAID controller.