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To: KJ. Moy who wrote (24487)	10/26/1999 7:25:00 PM
From: Technocrat	Read Replies (1) of 29386

KJ, Thanks for sending me the direct quote. I heard rumors of the KeyLabs report so I asked about them a couple of weeks ago. This is where I learned about the Brocade contract with the testing facility. I was surprised by the silly outcome. I was expecting the Brocade and Ancor switch to be pretty close in throughput for a small-scale demonstration. This is what has been seen so far at government and university facilities. As the size of the fabric and file transfers grow, then Ancor may well dominate. Sun and EMC probably know the answer to this hypothesis :-) Actually, I do not have a problem with who pays for work assuming the testing is done professionally and above board. When I have an illness which I suspect may be serious, I pay a qualified physician to give me his/her best advice. I am not paying for the content (outcome)---rather compensating for the doctor's time and effort. A real switch test would have been to verify the performance specification provided by the manufacturer. If they saw a huge performance deficit from Ancor, professionals would have contacted Ancor engineering to discern why. Perhaps there was damage or a bad cable, etc., etc. Same with the other switches. When the engineering staff admits everything is working tip-top and that is just as fast as the poor switch will go, THEN you publish. Testing is a confirmation process; it is not "gotcha" journalism. Regardless, I am not emotional about this one tad. Engineers have to assume somebody rigged the test one way or the other. Wow. Three posts in one day. I'll shut up... Kurt

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