Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : The New QLogic (ANCR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J Fieb who wrote (23938)	9/1/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: fibrehound*	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

64 port switch- I guess its out of the bag! Multi-stage networks can be expanded in three ways: 1. By adding more cross-connect links (Inexpensive Wiring-only Expansion). This raises the overall fabric capacity and non-blocking percentage (the percentage of time each port has uncontested network access) without requiring additional switches, but does lower the number of available I/O ports. 2. By adding additional I/O switches (I/O Expansion). This increases the number of available end ports and overall fabric capacity while incurring only a minimum of additional blocking, depending on the number of cross-connect links used. 3. By adding additional cross-connect switches (Performance Expansion). This raises overall system performance considerably while maintaining approximately the same number of I/O ports. When the number of cross-connect links equals the number of I/O ports, a 100% non-blocking configuration is achieved. Ancor's 64-port switch enables the creation of 100% non-blocking fabrics with as many as 2048 switch nodes -- all of which can experience simultaneous full-duplex gigabit-per-second access to the fabric. Large non-blocking configurations are not possible with any other architecture.

To: J Fieb who wrote (23938)	9/1/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

J Fieb, I would be happy to give you some comments. Let me preface by saying this is very good news. For those of us following Ancor for many years now - this Multistage Architecture was a feature of Ancor's LAN based products. Until recently there has been little demand for it in SANs because of the fact that a cascaded or meshed architecture could handle the traffic. At the shareholder meeting this year, the point was made that as traffic in the SAN increases the need for more robust architectures would evolve. I am very glad to see this. I would be very interested in seeing: 1. The acual configuration of the FC fabric and total number of cross connects. 2. The peak performance of the fabric relative to theoretical max performance of the servers/storage devices. 3. Whether any processor clustering occurred on the fabric. I recall an HDS demo where both were done on a single switch. Further confirmation of Ancor's often understated technology. George D.

To: J Fieb who wrote (23938)	9/1/1999 11:08:00 PM
From: w2j2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

J, here is a quote on the Intel data farms: And Gerhard Parker, a longtime manufacturing executive who was appointed to head Intel's new business ventures last year, unveiled the company's plan to create a major data-services business known as Internet hosting. Intel will set up data centers with thousands of powerful computers known as servers to provide data processing, storage and other computing services for companies that connect users to the Internet. Each center will cost $50 million to $100 million and use 2,000 to 5,500 servers.