Here's an interesting article about FC vs other protocols:
Is Fibre Channel losing SAN dominance?
fcw.com:80/pubs/fcw/1999/1206/fcw-specfibre-12-06-99.html
[snip]
"The history of battles over SCSI, Ethernet and LAN standards might point to
problems ahead for Fibre Channel. Because most of the developers involved
with Fibre Channel also suffered through the earlier standards skirmishes,
lessons have been learned and Fibre Channel standards "are coming together
much faster than other standards have in the past," said Rich Lautzenheiser,
strategic marketing manager at Agilent Technologies, a Hewlett-Packard Co.
spin-off.
Cogut, however, said he thinks the standards process has been "painfully
slow" and that even when standards are hammered out, their eventual market
acceptance will be uncertain. If there is any problem with Fibre
Channel-based SANs, he said, it lies in the slow pace of the standards
process."
And another article about the new SIO standard and how it might compete with fibre channel....
Upstart challenges Fibre Channel
fcw.com:80/pubs/fcw/1999/1206/fcw-specfibre-side-12-06-99.html
[snip]
"It will be several years before the first SIO products are ready, said Rich
Lautzenheiser, strategic marketing manager for Agilent Technologies, and even
then it will never completely replace Fibre Channel. "There'll be a sizable
installed base of Fibre Channel by then, and we are already seeing a move
downwards in the cost curve for Fibre Channel," he said.
The first version of the SIO specification could be available by early next year." |
