
Agilent HHBA-5220, HHBA-5221
2Gb/s, 64-bit, 66 MHz Fibre Channel Adapters
for High Performance Applications
Product Overview
Product Description
Agilent’s HHBA-5220 and
HHBA-5221 are 2 Gb/s, 64-bit,
66 MHz PCI to Fibre Channel
Adapters for enterprise Storage
Area Network (SAN) applications.
The Fibre Channel Adapters
provide auto-speed negotiation
for seamless integration in one
and two Gigabit environments.
The versatility of the new HBAs is
based on Agilent’s market-leading
Tachyon Fibre Channel (FC)
controllers, offering unmatched
performance and flexibility.
Broad Product Offering
Agilent’s 2 Gb/s adapters sup-
port both fiber-optic and copper
cable connections. For high-end
applications where performance
and reliability are critical, the
HHBA-5221 comes with a Small
Form Factor (SFF) embedded LC
optical transceiver for use with
mutimode optical cable. For
applications requiring either an
optical or copper interface, the
HHBA-5220 includes a cage
(receptacle) for a Small Form
Factor Pluggable (SFP) LC
optical or an HSSDC-2 copper
transceiver.
Scalable Performance Matches
Demanding SAN Requirements
The 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters
are powered by Agilent Tachyon
controllers, based on a Finite State
Machine (FSM) architecture. The
FSM allows performance to scale
seamlessly with increased server
CPU power. By contrast, processor-
based adapters are limited by the
maximum performance of the
processor itself.
Widest Range of Software Support
Agilent offers a Tachyon Soft-
ware Developer’s Kit (TSDK) for
Windows NT 4.0, Linux environ-
ments and VXWorks.
Features
64-bit, 66 MHz universal PCI
interface (2.2 compliant)
Fibre channel data transfer rates:
–
Up to 200 MB/s (half duplex)
–
Up to 400 MB/s (full duplex)
Auto speed negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
LED link speed indicator
Loop and fabric boot BIOS, EFI
support
FC class 2 and 3
FC tape class 3
Supports fibre channel arbitrated
loop (FC-AL) including public loop
and fabric (F- and FL-port login)
Copper and optical media
interfaces
–
HHBA-5220: Small Form Factor
Pluggable (SFP) cage
–
HHBA-5221: Small Form Factor
(SFF) LC optical transceiver
Applications
Storage Area Networks (SANs)
Clustering
Back-up
Near on-line storage
Video editing and CAD
Data Mining
Data warehousing
OLTP
RAID and JBOD