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To: mauser96 who wrote (1756)	12/7/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: mthomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

The FCIA states that FC speed will increase to 24 Gigabytes by 2004. Recent paper, saw it somewhere yesterday. Also, ANCR is coming out with new FC switch in January. Maybe this is why ANCR popped a bit today. Martin Thomas

To: mauser96 who wrote (1756)	12/7/1999 10:29:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

NTAP's clustered configuration uses fc as its "cloud". The theoretical limit to the number of filers in the cluser is without limits, as far as I know. Thus the capacity is very large. The clusered configuration also allows pairing of filers for soft failover. Also remote backups/recoveries throughout the cloud using SNAPSHOT is supported. Also, any filer in the fc cloud can be attached to the enterprise's LAN/WAN. There is no single entry point into the filer fc network and there is no "controller". Now that I think about it, NTAP's NAS is rapidly becoming a SAN, but with a wider range of scalability and superior price/performance compared to EMC.