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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote ()12/13/1997 7:09:00 PM
From: Nine_USA  Read Replies (3) of 4808
 
Hewlett Packard, Quantum, and Seagate Technology believe that FC-AL holds
greater long-term potential over other serial interfaces. The FC-AL interface is a
subset of the Fibre Channel network systems interconnection standard adopted by
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Fibre Channel is already in use at
the system level, and is rapidly gaining momentum in the disk drive industry. This
means that customers who have already invested in Fibre Channel as their
box-to-box solution can leverage their current investment inside the box as well. The
SSA and P1394 interfaces will never be used as a host-to-host interconnect solution
because they were not designed to run multiple protocols (e.g., SCSI, networking,
etc.). While leveraged investment is a key benefit offered only by the FC-AL
interface, there are a number of other benefits of that interface, depending on the
customers' objectives.

Hewlett Packard, Quantum, and Seagate Technology believe that Ultra SCSI is the
cost-effective choice to the performance gains required by some systems such as
low-end servers and desktop workstations. For those systems who have substantial
performance or stringent reliability requirements, the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
(FC-AL) interface is the best choice.

Excerpted from a Quantum Corp white paper at:

quantum.com
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