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To: Starowl who wrote (23168)	7/3/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

Starowl, <<<Nonetheless, I suppose a new generation of I/O systems could indeed bypass FC in several years time.>>> I think there will be many obstacles for this to succeed. The main one, NGIO and FIO are two separate camps. There seems to be no chance the two will merge. So, one may say, let the market decide which one will win. Well, then, if you are a storage device maker, would you have a same device supporting two separate IO systems while you already have a full product lines on FC? It is just too complicated, costly and not feasible to do. IMHO there may be a compromise among server makers to concentrate on re-defining the host bus architecture and leave FC switching to do the networking piece. This way, everybody is happy. Adapter companies will have lots of business. FC continues to be on main stage. Storage companies does not have to change anything. Server companies will gain the performance they are going after. The only thing is that company such as Intel would be perceived to have lost some control it never has in the first place. Look how long it took FC to have become a standard to now. It is about 10 years since the first group meet to define the standards. KJ p.s. Thanks George for a nice link.

To: Starowl who wrote (23168)	7/3/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Starowl, In your research on I/O have you come across anything about the I/Os per second for these systems? The JNI/Adaptec story was mentioned in this month's InfoStor in a panel entitled "JNI leverages Adaptec Technology". They discussed how they are based on Adaptec's Emerald III chip architecture and how their HBAs will be used in Sun SBUS platforms to replace the current Tachyon based HBAs. They are shipping 32 and 64 bit 33MHz PCI to FC HBAs in volume and 2GB/s HBAs to developers. Several manufacturers are working on or producing 64 bit/ 66Mhz PCI to FC adapters. JNI seems like an interesting company to me with an increasing FC and HIPPI presence, but I haven't heard about an IPO. George