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•Z-SAN is a protocol that provides a highly reliable and efficient way to network disk storage.
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•Z-SAN is a peer-to-peer protocol that is much smaller and very much simpler than iSCSI and FC yet provides more versatility, functionality and higher performance.
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•The architecture of a Z-SAN network is based exclusively on Internetworking Protocol (IP). The Basic Control and Transfer commands of Z-san use UDP packets and the efficiency is very high.
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•Z-SAN uses common inexpensive IP switches and routers and works in any standard IP network.



