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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
Steven Jeffrey Zack, Burlington, NJ (US);
TVGateway, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus of utilizing a plurality of independent fiber channel arbitrated loops for moving, replicating and storing video information on storage devices in an interactive video information system. A plurality of servers are each comprised of a plurality of server modules. Each server module comprises a plurality of fiber channel (FC) disk drives coupled by a local port to a first fiber channel arbitrated loop within each server module. The plurality of FC disk drives on each of the plurality of server modules are also coupled to a second FC loop, via a backup port on each FC disk drive. By utilizing two independent FC loops in this configuration, data may be sequentially transmitted from a first server module, across the backup FC loop, to a second server module.