MetaLAN is a multi-point gateway companion software that connects your enterprise LAN with your high-speed SAN, enabling facility-wide LAN-based users to leverage the unique advantages and benefits of MetaSAN.

By enabling transparent, and persistent connections to your shared storage from computers that are not directly attached to the SAN, MetaLAN turns your main SAN into a cross-OS, digital hub that can serve your entire facility, not just your high-speed workstations.

Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, MetaLAN's outstanding ability to unify SAN and LAN networks enables network administrators to tailor environments based on throughput and particular workflow needs using innovative workgroup topologies that overcome the traditional
limitations of NAS.

Network load balancing in MetaLAN ensures that all requests coming from multiple LAN clients will be fairly distributed among the available Data Masters - the workstations that provide access to the SAN resources. Load balancing is required to avoid excessive burden on any given Data Master.

With MetaLAN, corporate servers can safely and transparently be brought down for maintenance during core hours and without risks of disrupting service. MetaLAN provides the multi-point gateway technology that automatically re-route user accesses via alternate data masters to ensure that a persistent connection with the shared storage is maintained at all times.