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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1558)	10/31/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Article on Internet bottlenecks. Somewhat interesting. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1558)	10/31/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Wei Yu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Douglas, The FL-port is in the Fabric switch side. There are usually three type of port in a Fabric switch: F-port, FL-port and E-port. F-port is for point-to-point topology. FL-port is for loop topology, and E-port is for the connection between the Fabric switches. You can connect any port in a hub or Capellix to a FL-port in a Fabric switch. As long as the devices in the hub or Capellix are public devices, they can communicate with other devices in the Fabric. If you want to connect between Capellixs, you need the E-port connection which means you need the Fabric blade. Currently, The E-port standard is not fully defined. Each Vendor has it own special implementation. That is why you can not connect an Ancor switch with Brocade switch together and expect they are working smoothly. I think Brocade has the best implementation in the E-port for now. Why do you say "Intel must have seen something in Zoox they could work with? I did not hear any news on that.