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To: GHowe who wrote (329)	11/12/1999 8:17:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1782

re: SANs, distance transparency, Fibre Channel and other techniques Gordie, we're looking into them. I have some special reasons for wanting to follow these folks, since they stand to validate some platform concepts we've been pontificating about now for about two years. The storage of data, and the data synchronization and retrieval between archives --between main and backup sites, as well as workplace server farms-- has either been done using tapes (manually, for all intents and purposes) or done through local Fibre Channel through "in-building" means due to distance constraints imposed by the costs of WAN/MAN pipes, historically. This is an untapped market in telecom terms, as far as I'm concerned -- owing primarily to the sheer volumes of the data involved, which often approach surrealistic levels compared to "normal" flows, and the costs for transport of same, up until recently. When you add cheap bandwidth to the formula, primarily due to the attributes of fiber, new vistas begin to emerge in terms of how and where one conducts their business processes. Dark fiber and lambda-based services which are now in the offing in many locales are about to change all of this, reducing the costs and reducing the effects of distances to virtual transparency. I'll post when we have something more concrete to talk about. We need to see where the gremlins shake out f the tree. Comments from others on this topic are indeed welcome. Regards, Frank Coluccio