The FibreXpac™ 16000 JBOD 3U Rackmount is an ultra high-density 3U Serial ATA to 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel JBOD subsystem designed for the growing storage industry where increasing capacity exceeds available rack space. This ultra high density combined with the 2-Gigabit/second Fibre Channel architecture makes the FibreXpac 16000 JBOD an ideal solution for HDTV, video streaming, data warehousing, and many other applications that require large amounts of capacity and performance.

Designed to meet the challenge of today's high-capacity storage demands, the FibreXpac 16000 JBOD blends Fibre Channel technology with cost-effective SATA, and is ideally suited for use under external RAID controllers or proprietary NAS-engines. The controller has two 2Gb/second host channels that are routed through two onboard hubs to four external SFP connections, two per channel. While two SFP connectors can be connected to the host computer/RAID system, the remaining two connectors can be cascaded to a second expansion FibreXpac 16000 JBOD. A total of seven FibreXpac 16000 JBODs can be cascaded for unprecedented scalability of up to 44 TeraBytes.

Featuring a 64-bit 133MHz memory bus, the unparalleled bandwidth make the FibreXpac 16000 JBOD's high data throughput more than sufficient for small-to-medium sized servers or workstations. Data can be distributed at the burst rate up to 1066MB/second. The dual independent PCI bus design virtually eliminates all imminent bottlenecks on I/O traffic, providing sufficient throughput for a wide range of applications on workstations, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Linux, or Unix-based servers. These applications include disk-to-disk backup, Video on Demand, CCTV, stream editing and others.

The FibreXpac 16000 JBOD features the same stiffness, rigidity, backplane, electrical and cooling technology found on our Enterprise-class full Fibre solutions. All the active components are hot-swappable including the power supply modules, cooling fan modules, and hard disk drives and trays. If any of these components fail, they can be replaced without turning off the FibreXpac 16000 JBOD and disrupting the smooth operation of the JBOD.

The FibreXpac 16000 JBOD is an excellent choice for mission-critical applications. The FibreXpac 16000 JBOD's scalable design makes expansion easy when storage needs increase. It is the ideal storage solution for applications requiring high data throughput, availability, and flexibility in configuration.