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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Bridgeworks WANrockIT 200 Node.
The Node has been designed to ensure that in the majority of installations it will require minimal
setup before use. However, we suggest you read the following section which will guide you through
setting up your WANrockIT 200.
Overview
The WANrockIT product range has been designed to connect storage devices over long distance,
high latency, TCP/IP networks with very little loss in performance. It supports all the major storage
protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS. More interfaces will be added, as they become
part of the mainstream storage protocols.
Each Node’s storage interface can be configured to act either as a target interface - working in a
similar mode to a storage device - or as an initiator - working in a similar mode to a server. Or, if the
WANrockIT Node has multiple storage interfaces, one can be configured to be an initiator and one
as a target device.
A unique part of WANrockIT functionality is that all the Nodes within a WANrockIT installation do
not have to have the same storage interface. A typical configuration is shown in the image below,
where traffic from a server on site A is accelerated over a WAN link to site B.
Host WANrockIT Node WANrockIT Node Storage
WAN Link
Site A Site B
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