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To: GJS who wrote (1148)4/2/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy  Read Replies (1) of 4808
 
GJS,

<<By the time NGIO or any other solution is production ready in volume, FC will have a huge installed infrastructure that will be hard for another medium to displace. >>

IMO NGIO will emphasize on opening up the aggregate throughput from the processor(s) to the peripherals(i.e. a serial architecture which can handle 1Gbytes/sec or more). It will use a link layer based on Fibre channel. Supposedly by 2001, the standard is finalized, companies are signing on, products are being made, NGIO switches are being made. Besides FC will have a huge installed base by that time, what kind of shape and form a NGIO switch would have will be of great interest to many of us like J Fieb for obvious reasons. FC switch can be a natural fit to support also NGIO. However, I do see the advantage of having a pure NGIO only switch if all devices on the fabric only speak NGIO.
So far, both factions of NGIO and FIO do not have any storage vendors(i.e. no peripherals manufacturers) as members. Does that mean NGIO is a no brainer for them to implement or they can continue to use FC and only the server companies need to implement this new I/O structure? I'm not sure. It is unclear to me. Do you have any insight on this? But the current emphasis seems to be on re-defining the server I/O shortcomings.

KJ
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