For that reason, Trebia's packed the ability to filter, terminate, and reissue not only IP commands but also Fibre Channel and iSCSI ones as well. This ensures that storage traffic will stay intact and operate as close to line speed as possible, Trebia says. Indeed, depending on the applications required of the SNP, the vendor claims it can keep up with 10-Gbit/s line speeds.
Trebia also claims it's optimized network performance by designing its SNP to handle protocol traffic more efficiently and at less power than competing technologies. In early lab trials, the vendor claims it's seen performance improvements of "at least an order of magnitude" over other traditional ASIC solutions.
Analysts say Trebia's SNP should spur SAN device development but warn there will be a learning curve. "The first pass with these new programmable processors won't necessarily result in faster time to market," says Eric Mantion, senior analyst at Cahners In-Stat Group.
The real advantage of products such as the SNP, Mantion says, will come once devices containing them have been shipped. "Product life cycles will be extended, and companies will reduce development costs, since they won't need to remove a board to upgrade a product," he asserts. Instead, a change of code will enable new features and functions to be added to SAN gear, via their processors.
Trebia already faces competition. Aarohi Inc. and NetOctave Inc. are two that have made recent announcements (see NetOctave Sounds Security Note and Startup Joins SAN Processor Trend
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