GST’s bridges and routers leverage your investment in GST backup solutions to accommodate more environments and connect to more servers.

The Big Picture

• Interconnect servers and tape resources.
• Servers and tape device can be Fibre or SCSI.
• 3-port bridges and 8-port router.
• Software for configuring setup, management
• Desktop or rackmount enclosures
• Protect investment in legacy tape devices

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GST’s Bridges and Routers are part of our BridgeLink™ and SanMatrix™ families respectively. Bridges provide interconnections that enable SCSI and Fibre tape devices to backup servers in a Fibre Channel network.

GST 4-port and 8-port routers provide the ability of a GST or other tape backup device (subsystem, autoloader or library) to be shared by multiple servers without conflict or contention. The necessary logic for resolving, managing and allocating resource requests is handled automatically. This provides an alternative to the expensive one-to-one deployment of tape backup devices to servers that is common today.

Both LVD SCSI with a maximum rate of 160 Megabytes a second and HVD SCSI at rates up to 40 Megabytes a second are supported.

GST bridges and routers are available in a desktop or rackmount enclosures.

Model overview

GST’s Fibre-to-SCSI Bridges are available in four models: Fibre-SCSI LVD and Fibre-to-SCSI HVD base models in desktop and rackmount enclosures:

1. Fibre to LVD-SCSI Bridge. Desktop.
2. Fibre to LVD-SCSI Bridge. Rackmount.
3. Fibre to HVD-SCSI Bridge. Desktop.
4. Fibre to HVD-SCSI Bridge. Rackmount.

GST’s Fibre & SCSI Routers are available in a wide variety of models. Each model provides the opportunity to select one of the following features:

1. 4 or 8 ports base units.
2. SCSI, or Fibre & SCSI.
3. LVD-SCSI or HVD-SCSI.
4. Fibre short wave or Fibre long wave.
5. Desktop or rackmount enclosure.

Bridge Benefits

Plug and Play – Frequent testing with manufacturer’s products; assures easy and automatic installation.

Management Software – Easy to use GUI software to manage the GST Bridge provides additional control over its use.

Protocol Conversion – Meets the need to convert SCSI-based storage devices to operate within a Fibre Channel network.

Future Growth – Fibre Channel is the accepted protocol for future network expansion on most medium sized servers. As time passes, accommodates the need to utilize existing storage devices with fibre networks.

Investment Protection – Bridges permit use of older legacy devices with fibre networks, thus preserving the investment in older tape solutions.

Router Benefits

Tape Resource Sharing - Supports non-overlapping backup operations for up to seven different servers that are routed to one tape subsystem or library. A good solution for High Availability configurations, to share a mirrored backup tape solution with the Primary and Secondary servers.

Plug and Play - Frequent testing with a wide variety of tape manufacturer solutions including ADIC, Exabyte, IBM, Overland Storage, Qualstar, Quantum, Sony and others; assures easy and automatic installation.

Protocol Conversion - Meets the need to convert SCSI-based storage devices to operate within a Fibre Channel network where necessary; reconfigurable later.

Future Growth - Fibre Channel is the accepted protocol for future network expansion on most medium sized servers. As time passes, accommodates the need to utilize existing storage devices with fibre networks.

Investment Protection - Routers permit use of older legacy devices with fibre networks, thus preserving the investment in older tape backup solutions. Moreover, the router can be upgraded to accommodate new protocols as devices change from HVD to LVD or SCSI to Fibre.

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