The SN 5420 Leads Cisco Into The Storage Market - Product Announcement

Computer Technology Review, May, 2001

Cisco Systems entered the storage market by announcing it has qualified more than 60 national and regional VARs and systems integrators (SIs) to resell the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router. To receive Cisco qualification, VARs and SIs must demonstrate that they can deliver integrated multi-vendor storage solutions, including the SN 5420, the first networking platform based on the iSCSI standard.

The Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router allows universal access to pools of Fibre Channel storage over IP networks. With it, customers can directly access storage anywhere on an IP network just as easily as they can access storage locally. For Cisco storage VARs and SIs, the SN 5420 provides a way for their customers to enhance existing storage investments with the ubiquity, ease of management, and security features IP networking offers.

To ensure interoperability in their customers' environments, many VARs and SIs have tested the SN 5420 in their networks. Forsythe Solutions president, Eva Losacco, stated: "The clear benefit of the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router will be in providing storage access across customers' entire wide area networks, and allowing distributed servers access to storage devices and back-up resources. We are very pleased to be able to offer it as part of our SAN solutions."

The Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router is available now and is listed at $27,000.