ThunderLink is a legacy expansion adapter for the Thunderbolt computer bus interface, which added support for SAS, SATA, fibre optic and Ethernet interfaces. The adapter could support throughput speeds of up to 10Gb/s.[1]
ATTO Technology ThunderLink devices were a purpose built Thunderbolt product designed to connect virtualized Mac hardware to 16Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel storage solutions within VMware VSphere environments.
This provided a solution for Apple technologies application development and testing environments, virtual desktop infrastructure and cloud hosting or shared private cloud.[2]
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderlink.
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Categories: [Computer buses] [Networking hardware]