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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: Greg Hull who wrote (26760)6/24/2000 5:16:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
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.

Is the FSPF protocol the sort of thing whereby one can operate per the protocol and communicate, but if one "knows" the other end, then one can extend that protocol for enhanced throughput and/or features? I.e., might CSCO support the protocol to provide basic interoperability with all future equipment supporting that equipment, but still support enhanced functionality with some manufacturers and/or backward compatability with those manufacturers?
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