ITEM: FC Marketplace Analyst Comments
Computer Reseller News, December 08, 1997
Issue: 767
Section: Hardware
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>>More than 150 companies are developing Fibre Channel products-good news for resellers interested in building solutions based on this I/O technology since price, even a year ago, was prohibitive, said Robert Montague, a technology analyst with Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc., a Memphis, Tenn.-based investment firm.<<
>>Over the past year, the financial investment community has "strongly endorsed" Fibre Channel as companies such as Gadzook Network Inc., which are building products based on this technology, embark on initial public offerings, Montague said.<<
>>According to analyst figures, the annual compound growth rate between 1997 and 2000 is expected to reach 60 percent, Montague said. Given the product lines supporting Fibre Channel, including hubs, switches and adapters, the Fibre Channel value is more than $7 billion.<<
>>At Comdex/Fall, more than 20 Fibre Channel vendors offered an open demonstration to illustrate multivendor interoperability for Fibre Channel-based storage area networks.<<
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