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To: Gus who wrote (1710)	1/10/2000 11:13:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4808

Here is Viangio from Yahoo about.......... Don't know the answer on the shipping directors. Sorry. Have heard rumor Brocade is designing their own 64 port. NAS boxes need to be fault tolerant so using DG's ccNUMA server clusters makes sense. If a server card fails another one can take over its work. This requires that all CPU (server) nodes see the same set of disks. That's what the SAN gives them. ccNUMA is DG's chosen way to build clusters. They use Dolphin's SCI chipset and switch. So they have the server to server communication covered via SCI (IEEE 1596 scalable coherent interconnect). The storage architecture will likely be a Storage Area Network which gives the data access availability. Some NAS vendors are doing FC-AL (like NTAP) but since DG already has switched FC SAN experience they will no doubt do that. Or offer both. I can't see an FC switch be using for inter server communication but for sure the storage - they'll likely attach to back end Clariion arrays. All speculation of course. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------