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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: DownSouth who wrote (26752)6/24/2000 10:39:00 AM
From: Greg Hull  Read Replies (2) of 54805
 
DS,

<<FC switches are not interoperable with one another>>

But isn't this the point of Bruce's link, that FC switches will be interoperable? Quoting from the link:

"Once ratified by ANSI, the FSPF protocol will be available for implementation by all vendors and will enable any FSPF-compliant switch to interoperate with other FSPF-compliant switches, regardless of manufacturer. "

It seems to me Cisco would want as large a market as possible and would not want to exclude, for example, the director market, currently owned by McData. Either the switches are fully-interoperable, in which case Cisco will have full access to all SANs regardless of vendor, or Cisco will ignore the SANs of EMC, Sun, and others built of "non-compliant" switches.

Greg
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