That article over the weekend was one of the reasons I bought
some more shares today.
<<"On multimode, 100 meters is cutting it real short," said Frank Ricci, director of
technical services at InterSignal, an Internet service provider in Montreal. "As a user,
you're playing with fire if you don't have everything about upgrading to Gigabit Ethernet
qualified, including cabling."
The limitation could warrant a re-evaluation of Gigabit Ethernet's role as a backbone
technology, said Sam Alunni, an analyst at Sterling Research, in Framingham, Mass.>>>
It is beginning to look like Gigabit Ethernet is a real joke.
A.No quality of service for GE vs perfect Qos for Fibre Channel.
(RSVP is only a partial solution and there are no standards for it).
B.GE is difficult to install. 1 Gps to the desktop is still years
away because of the cabling standards mess.
C.Now we learn that Gigabit Ethernet has a distance limitation of
100 meters vs. 10 kilometers for FC.
I realize that GE will be popular because it has ethernet in it's name
but once Ancor introduces their ethernet connectivity device
I don't see how any informed thinking person will be able to
choose GE over FC for their network backbone.
Therefore, while I have always thought Ancor will make most of their
money in the storage market, I think we can all increase our estimates
of how much business Ancor will derive from the network backbone
market and the high performance LAN market.
Regards,
Steve |
