Areca Releases In-band Manager for its External RAID Controllers
Taipei, Taiwan, June 30, 2005 -- Areca Technology Corporation, a leading provider of External RAID controller, PCI-X, PCI-Express SATA ll RAID controllers with Intel RAID 6 inside, today announced that its fully lines controller has supported In-Band manager through PCI, SCSI and Fibre channel bus.
The originally Areca external RAID controller only offers several out of band options for easy configuration and management. These out-of-band managements include via an RS-232 through industry standard terminal communications applications and over LANs through an Ethernet port. The external RAID controller now can also be managed in-band over SCSI or Fibre Channel bus. One of the most attractive in band management features of the Areca RAID controller is Areca's embedded Application Programming Interface (API) which provides third party OEMs and integrators with the means needed to develop their own management tools including Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) Utilities.
When we implement an in-band storage network, both data and manager flow over the same path. In an out-of-band implementation, the data flow is separated from the manager flow. Separating the flow of manager and data in this manner allows the data to use the full bandwidth of SCSI or Fibre channel bus, while manager could go over a separate network in the RS232 or LAN that are isolated for this purpose.
About Areca Technology Corporation
Areca Technology Corporation designs and manufactures storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market including DAS, NAS, and SAN. All PCI, SCSI, and Fiber Disk Array Controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 1E or JBOD. The company also produces its own custom ASIC, a high-speed IDE controller, and a RAID 6 engine on their controllers to achieve high data throughput and availability. Areca has completely committed its highly skilled research and development effort to disk array technologies that yield the fastest performance, best reliability and lower cost points than competitive disk array solutions. Areca Technology is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.areca.com.tw