George,
I was reading through my pile of industry magazines, and came across an interesting article in the June 15th issue of Electronic Engineering Times. The article is titled, "McData's enterprising Fibre Channel switch", and appears on page 104. (This may have been posted before, but I don't recall seeing this part.)
"McData began offering departmental Fibre Channel switches last year, using a core 16-port system switch design from Brocade Communications Inc., but adding larger redundancy and failover features. McData is using a custom switching ASIC developed by Brocade, but all the system-level hardware architecture is McData's own."
"For the new switch, called the ED-5000 Director, McData has reduced the Brocade intellectual property to a single ASIC, and plans to move to its own chip and subsystem designs in subsequent generations."
A SINGLE ASIC? If I'm reading that correctly, that means McData now has a 16-port ASIC, which eclipses Ancor's 4-port ASIC.
Craig |
