What is the future for SCSI beyond today s products?
A. SCSI has a positive future reflected by the fact that member companies of the SCSI Trade Association adopted a SCSI roadmap outlining future generations following today s Ultra160 SCSI generation. Ultra320 SCSI, with performance up to 320 MBytes/second and Ultra640 SCSI, with performance up to 640 MBytes/second have been defined, plus additional generations have been targeted. This will give OEMs, resellers and users the bandwidth to accommodate increasingly faster and larger drives, faster CPUs and faster networks. It s anticipated that products supporting Ultra320 SCSI will begin shipping in 2001, and as with all SCSI products will be compatible with previous generations of SCSI. Q. Performance is fine, but what about manageability and usability? SCSI traditionally has had an ease-of-use benefit. A. New SCSI technology will be engineered to provide even more usability and manageability features, including self-tests for ensuring cabling integrity, arbitration to select the optimal
