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To: Fred Williams who wrote ()	9/3/1997 10:34:00 PM
From: Steve Scribe	of 55

<<<Thanks, I appreciate your research and insight. However, you site Ancor as claiming that, <<Connectionless switches(class 2,3)start collapsing when they get overloaded.>> while Brocade's claim on their Web Site, is that <<Interconnected switches can provide great flexibility while extending a topology almost endlessly. As a Fabric's connections increase in number (many thousands are possible), the system's aggregate bandwidth increases rather than decreases.>> I just don't know what to believe. Unless we did hear from someone who has had a chance to confirm either statement as being accurate.>>>> I think they are both correct. You can probably connect as many Brocade switches together as you want. You just have to keep the traffic light if you connect too many of them together. Just as a hypothetical class 2/3 phone system would work if the volume of phone calls was light enough. Another analogy is ethernet networks which are connectionless and yet can scale to hundreds of ports. They work fine as long as they are used for E-Mail and other low volume data. Hope that helps. Regards, Steve

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