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An Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Arc h i t e c t u r e
The Lightning 9900 V Series intelligent storage systems are the most powerful
enterprise systems in the industry today and two generations ahead of the competition. The
new architecture used in the Lightning 9900 V Series has almost twice the internal
processing power and bandwidth of our earlier enterprise systems. Figure 2 illustrates the
architecture of the Lightning 9900 V Series.
At the heart of the Lightning 9900 V Series is enormous capacity for throughput,
thanks to Hi-Star architecture. This network of interconnecting high-speed links to system
components provides an unequaled internal aggregate bandwidth of 15.9GB/sec
(gigabytes/sec) in the Lightning 9980V system. This bandwidth is divided into 10.6GB/sec
for data transfer and 5.3GB/sec for separate internal control information transfer. This
superhigh bandwidth is approximately 10 times that of competitive products.
Figure 2 – The Lightning
9900 V Series is based
on an internal switched
architecture.
The Lightning 9980V
system has an internal
bandwidth of
15.9GB/second.
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In t ro d u c t i o n
The Lightning 9980V
system has almost twice
the processing power of
our earlier enterprise
systems.