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Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies
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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (3679)7/23/2001 3:46:55 AM
From: Gus  Read Replies (1) of 4808
 
.....Brocade might be conceding on one thing though. I understand that the second generation of the SW12000 is belatedly slated to include FICON so they can play with the Big Boys....

Too late the hero. MCDTA has over 1 million ESCON ports spread out over more than 5,100 sites in more than 65 countries. It has also sold well over $30M FICON bridge cards since 1999. Each $5,000 bridge card converts 8 ESCON channels to 1 FICON channel. Inrange's ESCON installed base consists of more than 130,000 ports. Both companies are already shipping directors and software that provide native FICON support and management tools. Designing for the IBM mainframe is not a trivial matter.

.....In the late 1990s McDATA designed a 128-port 9032 Model 5 Director for IBM— a super switch for interconnecting mainframe computers and high speed peripherals like disk and tape arrays. IBM came to McDATA again when the company needed an internal bridge card to manage the optoelectronic, framing and format conversion from newer, IEEE One Gigabit Fibre-Channel connections (or FICON) for the 9032. Originally designed with the 200-Megabit ESCON protocol in mind, to the Model 5 would be the first of IBM's switches to support FICON....

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Methinks Brocade is just posturing to support its stock.
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