About Paralan

Paralan Corporation Corporate Profile

Paralan Corporation was founded in January 1988 by Marc D. Brooks. It is a privately-held corporation by Marc D. Brooks and Barry Shiloff. Incorporated in the State of California, Paralan is located in an industrial park in the Kearney Mesa area of San Diego.

Paralan is dedicated to expanding the horizons of the Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI). We have unique products with a wide window of opportunity open to us. Paralan provides the electronic industry with the ability to utilize SCSI in ways heretofore unavailable.

• President: Marc D. Brooks
• Chief Operating Officer: Barry Shiloff
• Sales Manager: Jim Stein
• Engineering: Herman Brooks

The above team members comprise over 100 years of collective experience in sales, marketing, management, and engineering. In addition to formal education, management draws upon its years of working experience in various management positions, including the successful launching of a manufacturer's representative company, the founding and sale of three successful manufacturing companies, and the grant of patents on seven unique products. Most important to our company is the strong desire to achieve the highest quality in our products and services.

Paralan was the first company in the world to have a fully functional fiber optic SCSI extender that works with any manufacturer's SCSI host adapter and SCSI peripherals. The Paralan SF40 is transparent to the computer operator, system hardware and software.

Borrowing from technology used in the SCSI bus extender, Paralan produced the first single-ended to differential converter that actually extends the bus length rather than decreasing it. Also, like the Paralan SCSI bus extenders, the converters correctly handle SCSI disconnect/reconnect. In early 1994, Paralan introduced a SCSI single-ended to differential converter for SCSI fast and wide (16-bit) systems with throughput of up to 20 megabytes per second.

At the end of 1994 and the beginning of 1995, Paralan produced the first ASIC developed specifically for controlling all of the signals used in both narrow and wide versions of SCSI differential converters and SCSI bus regenerators. This same ASIC is to be used in SCSI switches.

As the technological leader in our field, Paralan has the opportunity for world-wide recognition and rapid growth. We continue to strive to produce high-quality products with technological advances, and to maintain our leadership in the SCSI enhancement marketplace.

Paralan's SCSI Bus enhancement products

SCSI Bus Extenders

• Extend the SCSI Bus up to 300 meters (1000 feet)
• Completely transparent to the hardware, software, and user
• Correctly handles Arbitration and Disconnect/Reconnect

Single-ended to differential SCSI converters

• SD10B/SD11C for 8-bit SCSI -- SD16B/SD17C for 16-bit SCSI
• Up to 40 megabytes/second with ULTRA SCSI
• May be used to extend SCSI Bus up to 60 meters (200 feet)

SCSI Bus RegeneratoRtm

• Inexpensively extend SCSI Bus in increments of 6 meters or 25 meters
• Solves problem of 8-bit/16-bit SCSI incompatibility
• Provides isolation for ease of SCSI device change/removal
• Up to 40 megabytes/second Ultra-SCSI speeds

SCSI Switch

• Switch one host between two strings of SCSI peripherals or
• Share SCSI peripherals between two hosts
• Provides 6 meter extension of single-ended SCSI Bus

SCSI Quiet Cable

• Correctly made cables eliminate hours of debugging only to find that a cable is the problem

For further information, please contact Paralan at:

Paralan
7875 Convoy Court
San Diego, CA 92111
Tel: (619) 560-7266
Fax: (619) 560-8929