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To: Starowl who wrote (23168)7/3/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy  Read Replies (2) of 29386
 
Starowl,

<<<Nonetheless, I suppose a new generation of I/O systems could indeed bypass FC in several years time.>>>

I think there will be many obstacles for this to succeed. The main one, NGIO and FIO are two separate camps. There seems to be no chance the two will merge. So, one may say, let the market decide which one will win. Well, then, if you are a storage device maker, would you have a same device supporting two separate IO systems while you already have a full product lines on FC? It is just too complicated, costly and not feasible to do.

IMHO there may be a compromise among server makers to concentrate on re-defining the host bus architecture and leave FC switching to do the networking piece. This way, everybody is happy. Adapter companies will have lots of business. FC continues to be on main stage. Storage companies does not have to change anything. Server companies will gain the performance they are going after. The only thing is that company such as Intel would be perceived to have lost some control it never has in the first place. Look how long it took FC to have become a standard to now. It is about 10 years since the first group meet to define the standards.

KJ
p.s. Thanks George for a nice link.
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