Pathlight Technology


Pathlight Technology was a pioneer in the field of Storage Area Networks. Based in Ithaca, NY, Pathlight was formed in 1994 as a spin-out from Ironics, a manufacturer of VME computer, IO and memory boards.
Pathlight was involved in the development of Serial Storage Architecture products, and in Fibre Channel products.
Pathlight merged with ADIC in 2001.

Products

One of the significant products from Pathlight was the SAN Gateway, which provided multi-directional bridging between multiple Parallel SCSI ports and multiple Fibre Channel ports. IBM teamed with Pathlight to provide the SAN Data Gateway and SAN Data Gateway Router.