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Finisar's Medusa Labs Introduces New Test Tools Suite for Developers
of Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) Products
and Components
SUNNYVALE, CA, Jul. 21, 2004 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Finisar Corporation
(NASDAQ: FNSR), a provider of network solutions, announced today that
its Medusa Labs group has introduced a new Test Tools Suite for developers
of Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) products
and components.
With over 10+ years' experience in Storage Networking testing and validation,
and the recipient of the 2004 Market Leadership Award for Fibre Channel
Test from Firm Frost and Sullivan, Finisar has taken its wealth of knowledge
and experience in the test and validation arena and put it directly into
this new test suite. Finisar's Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite is a series
of benchmark speed, data integrity and stress test tools that allow test
and validation engineers to better develop quality products in a shorter
time frame, for faster time to market. The suite was designed specifically
for engineers that work with DVT, validation, bring-up, design validation
and Quality Assurance.
Finisar's Medusa Labs realized early on that there were no current industry
software test tools that met the stringent testing requirements of its
SAN and NAS customers. Most of the industry is using shareware benchmarks
or ineffective I/O generating tools that are not capable of identifying
the vast majority of bugs on most products. Finisar's Medusa Labs Test
Tool Suite was specifically designed to find elusive data corruptions,
I/O timeouts, I/O loss, and system lockup scenarios. The tools are very
rich in debug and logging information to allow for rapid analysis of any
found issues. They are designed to stress hardware and signal integrity
and are also portable to all of the major operating systems so that familiarity
on one platform leads to familiarity on all others.
"For the validation of our new Alacritech STA2000 multi-port Gigabit
TOE ASIC, we searched for an outside test partner with the advanced I/O
tools and technical expertise to assist us in ensuring we offered best-in-class
technology to our customers," said Richard Blackborow, vice president,
Engineering, Alacritech Inc. "We found the ability of Medusa Labs'
Test Tool Suite to conduct stringent, real-world stress-tests invaluable
in enabling us to deliver a TOE ASIC with the quality required by today's
mission-critical storage networks."
The Medusa Test Tools Suite consists of 3 components -- I/O Tools, Test
Automation and Utilities that run on a host system. At the simplest level,
the test tools operate in an initiator-target fashion. The host system
acts as an initiator and the target can be any storage device internal
or external to the host system. The host system becomes a precision traffic
generator using real-world application data. The tools are command-line
based, so they are ideal for setting up scripted test runs. In addition,
the Test Tools suite uses Finisar analyzers, because a substantial number
of defects or deficiencies are overlooked in product development due to
anomalies that are not readily visible at the application level. An analyzer
is essential to detecting underlying items of interest, such as I/O fragmentation
and recoverable errors, and verifying performance numbers. A powerful
feature of the test tools is the ability to send an I/O with a special
value for analyzer triggering. Fault conditions, which would be difficult,
if not impossible, to debug and to find the root-cause from the application
level can easily be captured in a trace and analyzed in detail.
"The Test Tool Suite was created because builders of SAN and NAS
products require potent tests to maximize their products' performance
and integrity, and to minimize their time to market," said Dr. Brian
Staff, VP of Marketing, Finisar Network Tools. "Medusa Labs Test
Tool Suite stresses specific areas of enterprise systems, provide superior
debug and analysis capabilities, and can be ported effortlessly into multiple
operating systems for ultimate user flexibility."
About Finisar
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) is a technology leader for fiber optic
subsystems and network test and monitoring systems. These products enable
high-speed data communications for networking and storage applications
over Gigabit Ethernet Local Area Networks (LANs), Fibre Channel Storage
Area Networks (SANs), and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) using Fibre
Channel, IP and SONET/SDH protocols.
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contact Gillaspy Associates at 805-386-0700 and on the
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