Qlogic QMC4052

The QMC4052 for the IBM BladeCenter provides connectivity to Storage Area Networks (SANs) over Ethernet and TCP/IP network infrastructures (switches, routers, and VPN appliances). Using a widely deployed and familiar networking technology, iSCSI can lower the total cost of ownership to better manage and support storage networking.

By offloading the iSCSI and TCP/IP protocol to the adapter, the QMC4052 eliminates the processing, interrupts, and bus accesses required to support protocols in host software. The QMC4052 virtually eliminates the host CPU system processing required for iSCSI and TCP/IP, delivering equivalent initialization and host processing performance of Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) SANs.