San Jose, CA, August 14, 2006- Catalyst Enterprises, Inc., a leading provider of advanced design verification and protocol analysis tools for PCI Express®, Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), USB 2.0, Certified Wireless USB, Fibre Channel, and other high performance I/O technologies, today announced support for the Linux operating system on their FCA Series of Fibre Channel protocol analyzers. The addition of the Linux client offers users of Linux, UNIX®, and Mac OS® platforms an alternative to software maintenance and security requirements of Microsoft® Windows®.
“Test labs today use a variety of operating systems, with Linux becoming increasingly prevalent,” stated Gary Aanerud, product manager, Catalyst Enterprises, Inc. “The ability to operate Fibre Channel protocol analysis and test products in a multitude of system environments provides our customers unmatched choice and flexibility.”
Catalyst Delivers Unique Industry Features
In addition to this new OS support, the Catalyst FCA Series also provides Solaris® support for SPARC® systems, based on architecture developed by Sun Microsystems®. Catalyst FCA products provide full protocol analysis and test support, including Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) capabilities for all Fibre Channel link speeds. A unique speed negotiation feature, AutoSpeedTrack™, allows the user to capture any mixture of Fibre Channel speeds on a single analyzer and display these captures in a single interleaved display.
Availability
FCA Series products with Linux support are available immediately. Contact Catalyst at [email protected] for more information.
About Catalyst Enterprises, Inc.
Founded in 1992 in San Jose, CA, Catalyst Enterprises is a leading manufacturer of data bus analysis and emulation tools for Fibre Channel Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Serial ATA (SATA), PCI Express, USB 2.0, Certified Wireless USB, and other serial and parallel data communications protocols. Catalyst’s development tools incorporate a reconfigurable hardware core architecture, which can be updated in the field with software, keeping the tool current with the latest standards and updated feature sets. These flexible hardware tools are powered by protocol-specific software applications, which are made available to customers for the lifetime of the product. Catalyst products are used by companies in the telecommunications, semiconductor, software, consumer electronics, defense, and other industries. Catalyst can be found on the web at www.getcatalyst.com.
Catalyst Enterprises, Inc. 6680 Via Del Oro San Jose CA 95119 (408) 365-3846
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