.Part 4 SAN Extension and Bridging HP SAN Design Reference Guide 785354-001

Table 136 HP FCIP gateways
Supported switchesGateway
B-series switches
“B-series 1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade”
(page 287)
“B-series 400 MP Router and MP Router Blade” (page 290)
“B-series MP Router” (page 292)
C-series switches
“C-series MDS 9216i, 9222i, IPS-4, IPS-8, 14/2 Multiprotocol Services Modules,
18/4 Multiservice Modules” (page 294)
B-series, C-series, and H-series switches“HP IP Distance Gateway (mpx110)” (page 273)
B-series, C-series, and H-series switches“MPX200 Multifunction Router with FCIP” (page 282)
Third-party QoS and data encryption FCIP products
Third-party vendors provide two classes of FCIP solutions that complement hardware: QoS devices
and IP data encryption devices. Detailed information about these products is available at the vendor
websites.
FCIP QoS products
You may need additional hardware to improve the QoS for an existing IP network. This hardware
lets you use the existing network with an FCIP gateway. Table 137 (page 270) lists QoS hardware
you can use with FCIP gateways.
Table 137 FCIP QoS products
SupportPurposeDeviceVendor name/website
HP P6000 Continuous Access
Application traffic and
bandwidth management
system
NetEnforcer
Allot Communications, Inc.
http://www.allot.com
PacketShaper 6500
Packeteer, Inc.
http://www.packeteer.com
MPLS GbE routersRS 3000, RS 8000
Riverstone Networks, Inc.
http://www.packeteer.com
WAN accelerator products
WAN accelerator products are not supported for use with HP Continuous Access products.
Fibre Channel over SONET
You can connect local SANs with a SONET to create an extended SAN.
An FC-SONET gateway resides at the end of an inter-site link. Each FC-SONET gateway
encapsulates Fibre Channel frames into SONET packets before transmitting the frames over the
network. Upon receiving the packets, another FC-SONET gateway extracts the original Fibre
Channel frames from the SONET packets and retransmits them to the destination Fibre Channel
node.
The FC-SONET gateway also handles SONET-level error recovery.
This section describes the following topics:
• “FC-SONET IP link configurations” (page 271)
• “FC-SONET network considerations” (page 271)
• “Third-party SONET gateways” (page 271)
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