• Allow SCSI devices to connect to a Fibre Channel network
• Typically used to allow legacy SCSI tape devices to participate on the SAN
• Map FC addresses to SCSI targets Crossroads 10000 FC to SCSI Router FC ports
SCSI connectors
Fibre Channel to SCSI bridge/routers: Allow SCSI devices — typically SCSI tape storage — to connect directly to a Fibre Channel SAN
Assigns FC addresses to SCSI targets, allowing SCSI devices to appear as Fibre Channel ports on the network
Bridge products do Fibre Channel to Parallel SCSI conversion. You may have tape drives that are still on parallel SCSI and you don’t want to get rid of them. A bridge will literally do the media conversion. There are some other software products that can be put onto here – that is called extended copy services software (3PC – third party copy) If this software is put onto this sort of device it is normally referred to as a storage router.
If the bridge is going to be involved in the movement of data at the block level it is referred to as a storage router. If only media conversion – it is a bridge.