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Pathlight Technology was a pioneer in the field of
Storage Area Networks A storage area network (SAN) or storage network is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage. SANs are primarily used to access data storage devices, such as disk arrays and tape libraries from ser ...
. Based in
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, Pathlight was formed in 1994 as a spin-out from Ironics, a manufacturer of VME computer, IO and memory boards. Pathlight was involved in the development of
Serial Storage Architecture Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) was a serial transport protocol used to attach disk drives to server computers. History SSA was invented by Ian Judd of IBM in 1990. IBM produced a number of successful products based upon this standard befo ...
products, and in
Fibre Channel Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data c ...
products. Pathlight merged with ADIC in 2001.


Products

One of the significant products from Pathlight was the SAN Gateway, which provided multi-directional bridging between multiple
Parallel SCSI Parallel SCSI (formally, SCSI Parallel Interface, or SPI) is the earliest of the interface implementations in the SCSI family. SPI is a parallel bus; there is one set of electrical connections stretching from one end of the SCSI bus to the oth ...
ports and multiple Fibre Channel ports. IBM teamed with Pathlight to provide the SAN Data Gateway (IBM Product 2108-G07 ) and SAN Data Gateway Router (IBM Product 2108-R03 tp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/san/2108/SM2108R03.pdf IBM Storage/ref>).


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