PMC-Sierra Webinar: SAS Topology Discovery Tutorial

Business Wire, August 17, 2005

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- PMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ:PMCS) will present a live webinar "SAS Topology Discovery Tutorial" on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 at 11:00AM PT/2:00PM ET.

What to Expect

In large Storage Area Networks (SANs) disks will be added and removed during operation. Efficient discovery is essential to maintain performance during the hot insertion or removal of disks. This webinar describes the topology discovery application for a SAN using a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expander network. It analyzes the discovery performance benefit of self-configuring expanders as compared with non-self configuring ones.

This webinar will:

--Introduce storage devices, their evolution and the SAS standard

--Describe the SAS Architecture and topology

--Explain the process of topology discovery

--Examine the two principle methods of discovery: external management client and self-configuring expander

--Analyze discovery performance of these two methods

--Provide specific example systems with selected components

About the Presenters

Gautam Mehandru is a SAS Applications Engineer in the Enterprise and Storage Division. He is responsible for supporting the maxSAS product family. Among other products, he was involved in the development of PMC-Sierra's market leading SAS Expander technology prior to joining the Applications Group.

Truong Nguyen is a Firmware Design Engineer in the Enterprise and Storage Division. He has designed and implemented a large portion of firmware in PMC-Sierra's SXP 24 and 36 SAS expanders. In addition, he also designed and implemented the proprietary Topology Discovery algorithm implemented in the PMC-Sierra SXP 24 and 36 SAS expanders.

Who Should Attend

Design engineers, system architects, product line managers, engineering management and marketing managers of data storage systems and equipment.

About PMC-Sierra

PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of high speed broadband communications semiconductors and MIPS-based(TM) processors for enterprise, access, metro, storage, wireless infrastructure and advanced consumer electronics equipment. For more information about PMC-Sierra's storage solutions, visit www.pmc-sierra.com/storage

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