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To: Sector Investor who wrote (498)	8/21/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Respond to of 626

Sorry to take up 3 posts, but I should also add this about the technology: "Used in the GFS family, the CWDM4 module saves fiber and provides fault tolerance for fiber links. Bi-directional transmission on one strand allows the CWDM4 to provide a fail-safe 2 Gbps backup path if one fiber path is lost. When used with Ether-Channel the CWDM module provides fault tolerance for both fiber links. If one fiber strand is cut, all data is automatically re-routed to the remaining fiber strand at half the data rate. "

To: Sector Investor who wrote (498)	8/21/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 626

And yet again - this time with a question, sorry (at least I got post #500 <g>) Transmitting 300GB of packetized DATA is one thing, but when the source is a single FILE, what kind of storage technology could read-write that size data file as fast as even the MRVC CWDM technology, let alone the claimed Silkroad speeds could transmit it? So other bottlenecks exist. I can't think of any - except memory. We are talking I/O speeds of 500 MB/sec for MRVC and an incredible 37.5 GB/sec to utilize the silkroad capability. Anyone? And is it available today - not to mention the cost?