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To: mthomas who wrote (1677)	12/5/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Martin, There are people who could give you better answers to your questions, than I can, but I will try to give you some answers. This is being discussed on the Yahoo Ancor thread right now. ANCOR will reap huge benefits next year as the world moves to Switched Fibre Channel SANs. Viangio is a knowledgeable guy in this area. Stands for Via NGIO (Next Generation I/O, which merged with another emerging standard to be called Infiniband) messages.yahoo.com From a recent article on Fibre Channel: "FCIA's technical committee predicts even higher bandwidth rates -- ranging from 200 MB/s to 24 GB/s, by the year 2004" 24GB Fibre Channel will be faster than 10GB ethernet. My belief is this, SANs need Fibre Channel. Once interoperability improves, Fibre Channel SANs will explode. Since Fibre Channel can do everything ethernet can and much more, it will become the technology of choice as SANs become ubiquitous on the internet. Here is an article posted on the ANCOR thread by George Dawson. It gives a good run down on the benefits of FC SANs. sunworld.com Also, watch the SI Ancor thread. Very knowledgeable technical experts discuss these issues all the time. When GG came out with his article there were discussions on this. Cheers, JW