Stroh, however, maintains that Trebia now has the capital to achieve its product-delivery and financial goals. "We have enough money in the bank to execute on our projects... for both the switch and the end-point markets," he told Byte and Switch earlier this month. The company will evaluate whether it needs to seek additional funds toward the end of 2003, he said.
Trebia is now trying to accelerate its time to market by trying to convince its partners that they can simply iSCSI-enable their existing Fibre Channel products using one of its chips. The company says that instead of building a native iSCSI solution, companies can simply slap an SNP-1000 in front of a typical 2-Gbit/s Fibre Channel interface, and -- voilà! -- instant iSCSI.
"All of a sudden, you have two iSCSI ports, without having to redesign that whole subsystem," Harper says. "Theres a lot of interest in this product as a great time-to-market solution."
Trebia conducted the test in the same environment it used for its FCIP test last month, composed of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD) and McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDTA) switches connected with Linux servers, and all available industry-standard targets. The only difference this time around was that Trebia enabled the part of the chips firmware that supports iSCSI rather than FCIP, thus converting Fibre Channel to iSCSI, and vice versa.
Also added to the mix was full iSCSI header and data digest protection. Trebia claims that the test is the first to take into account this feature, which verifies that both the data and its header have not been altered under transport. Adding the feature to the test is important, Harper says, because any company using iSCSI would certainly use it to certify the integrity of its data. Since systems can experience significant slowdowns when supporting header and data digest functions, test results not taking them into account simply dont correspond to real-world usage, he says. "We think its absolutely critical."
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