Areca ARC-4607T2: Thunderbolt2 to 16Gb FC Adapter

Areca Technology Corporation announced the ARC-4607T2 with ready-to-ship availability.

It is a 16Gb FC solutions with Thunderbolt2 technology designed to work with Mac Pro servers. This solution provides performance tha allows 4K video at the same time while daisy chaining storages devices and doing a simultaneous 4K in/output file transfers. ARC-4607T2 is used to connect Thunderbolt2 host computers to 16Gb external FC storage devices.

The ARC-4607T2 adapter offers dual 16 Gbps FC ports that will auto negotiate with 16Gb, 8Gb, and 4Gb FC devices. With dual 16Gb FC ports and dual 20Gb Thunderbolt2 ports configurations, it is a solution for hooking up to a high-speed FC SAN network to achieve storage solution for 4K video workflows

The ARC-4607T2 adapter brings connections to FC SAN on any computer, and workstation with Thunderbolt2 interface. It provides a  storage connectivity solution with enhanced reliability and performance to support any application and tiered storage solution.

This adapter is for large capacity external storage RAID and FC switch.

ARC-4607T2 highlights:

• Enables FC connectivity on systems with a Thunderbolt2 port

• Dual FC Ports

• 16Gbt data transfer rates

• 3,200MB/s maximum full-duplex throughput per channel

• Supports all FC topologies: direct fabric, arbitrated loop and point-to-point

• Dual 20Gb Thunderbolt2 ports with DisplayPort and device daisy-chain support

• Auto Negotiation to 16Gb, 8Gb and 4Gb FC devices

• External LEDs for link and access status for each channel

• Thunderbolt cable included

• Two pluggable 16Gb optical LC SFP+ modules (optional)

• Thunderbolt2 certified for Mac