RE: Who is doing what

["VonStamwitz, Paul" <paulv@corp.adaptec.com>]

Don,

Adaptec's EtherStorage also supports TCP, as well as a light-weight
transport protocol (STP). There has been some confusion over acronyms. STP
is SAN Transport Protocol (an acronym within an acronym). It has been
confused with Scheduled Transfer, which it is not.

For more information on EtherStorage, see http://adaptec.com/etherstorage

Paul von Stamwitz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron, Don [mailto:don.cameron@intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: Who is doing what
> 
> 
> I am trying to figure out who the players are in the storage 
> over IP arena.
> From following the discussions here, and reading the trade 
> rags, I have come
> up with the following. Please let me know where I am wrong:
> 
> The IP Storage Working Group (IBM, Cisco, HP, Adaptec, 
> Quantum, EMC, and
> others) 
> 	Mapping of SCSI to TCP. All agree that TCP is 
> appropriate for WAN. A
> majority advocate TCP for both LAN and WAN, a minority advocate a
> lighter-weight transport protocol for LAN only.
> 
> Adaptec: EtherStorage
> 	Mapping of SCSI to light-weight transport protocol specifically
> designed for LAN only. Uses SEP (SCSI Encapsulation Protocol).
> 
> Nishan: SoIP (Storage Over IP)
> 	Can't find much detail here.
> 
> Gadzoox and Lucent:
> 	Fibre Channel over IP. Proposal is to use IP to bridge 
> between FC
> SANs for MANs (and WANs?).
> 
> SAN, Ltd: SSCOP (Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol)
> 	Route storage data over IP (UDP?) using the data link 
> protocol from
> ATM that allows selective re-transmission.
>