Hardware Support
The Coraid company offers an array of AoE SAN appliances under the EtherDrive brand, along with diskless gateways that add network-attached storage functionality, using the NFS or SMB protocols, to one or more AoE appliances.
In 2007 LayerWalker announced the world's first single-chip AoE hardware solution called miniSAN running at both Fast and Gigabit Ethernet grades. The miniSAN product family offers standard AoE server functions plus other management features that targets PC, consumer and SMB markets.
Data Fabrics Inc. offers low-cost internal and external GbE AoE enablers as well as desktop and rackmount AoE SAN appliances.
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