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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1079)2/17/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Pigboy  Read Replies (1) of 4808
 
Douglas,

Thanks for your reply. Trying to sum up a few points more --

Hard Zoning with 'routing enforcement' seems much better than any sort of other zoning for security reasons. Hard zoning also seems to be the only zoning to work well with NT? Sounds too good to be true. How long will it take virtual zoning to adapt to this and/or others like Brocade and Vixel to move over to Hard Zoning (long?)?

Private Loop and Public Loop support are going to both be needed. Ancor is the only one with Public Loop? You seem to imply that for public loop (enterprise) to take off, you'll need the proliferation of private loop (departments). A switch that does both seems to be the holy grail. I have heard that Ancor will support both but doesn't yet. Is this true? Also, I believe only Brocade and Vixel support private loop. Is this true?

You mention that Ancor might be the only true 'fabric switch' by means of being an F_port and then state that new Vixel, like the Ancor switch are truly F_Port/FL_Port and E_Port/G_Port capable. This confuses me on the definition of fabric then,,,?

If ancor is able to have public and private loop with hardware zoning while no one else is AND its still cheaper, i think they have a great chance. of course, ive thought this for awhile and i believe you have too. ;-))

you don't want to hear my theories on those questions i asked. im very much still trying to learn about public vs private loop. like i mentioned from hearing that vixel guy talk about how people need private loop not public loop...then again, that was a long time ago. what do you think of vixel's switch? i think you said it was a tank..but any further elaboration would be great. do these guys have any where near the experience or features the ancor or brocade switches do?

thanks again,
cheers
pigboy
p.s. 'Rushmore' should be in the theatres now! no rental! there's a pretty funny send up of serpico and apocolypse now in it. cheers.
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