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 : Vitesse Semiconductor -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A. Edwards who wrote (3055)	10/26/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: Drake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

OT -- Thanks, A. We all appreciate your post. dc

To: A. Edwards who wrote (3055)	11/2/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

this should help continue the drive in the FC/GE segment, which as you may have heard, had revenues up 27% QoQ and 100% YoY in the latest earnings report. significantly, 2M ports were shipped (up 0.6M) with demand at 2.3M that could not be satisfied. no brainer: VTSS will be increasing capacity to 3M this quarter. ----- Electronic Engineering Times November 01, 1999, Issue: 1085 Section: Semiconductors Ancor, Vitesse add meat to Fibre Channel products Craig Matsumoto techweb.com SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Ancor Communications Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. will be among the companies making chip-related announcements at the Fibre Channel Technical Conference here later this week. Ancor (Eden Prairie, Minn.), will show a Fibre Channel switch, powered by a fifth-generation ASIC, that targets storage-area networks. Vitesse (Camarillo, Calif.) will round out its transceiver offerings. Ancor, which has produced Fibre Channel chips and systems for a variety of applications, will unveil SANbox, a family of Fibre Channel switches for storage-area networks which allow networked disk drives to be used by any server on the network. Fibre Channel, which can connect multiple devices across long distances, has emerged as the dominant standard for SANs. At the heart of the SANbox is a fifth-generation Ancor ASIC that essentially executes the Fibre Channel protocol, controlling all communication between servers and disk drives."We put more of the intelligence on the hardware so it runs faster," said Cal Nelson, president of Ancor. MultiStage support The ASIC is optimized for Ancor's Multi Stage network architecture, in which SANbox switches can be used as cross-connects, forwarding packets between groups of switches. The MultiStage architecture is less complex and more scalable than a mesh, in which switches are as densely interconnected as possible. It also has claimed advantages over a cascade, a tree-like format in which certain switches can become weak links. Ancor will display four SANbox switches, ranging from eight to 64 ports. Pricing was not available by press time. Vitesse will use the show to introduce two transceiver chips that complement existing Fibre Channel chips from the company. The VSC7139, a four-port (quad) Gigabit Ethernet transceiver, is the follow-up to Vitesse's previously announced single-port transceiver. The VSC7212 is a single-port chip that succeeds an existing quad part. Both chips are Gigabit Ethernet transceivers, but the 7212 (and its quad predecessor) can also handle encoding and decoding of the 10-bit-wide data format known as 8B/10B. The VSC7139 is available in a 208-pin ball-grid-array package at $25 in quantities of 10,000. The VSC7212 is available in a 100-pin quad flat pack and is less than $20 in quantities of 5,000. Both chips are sampling now.