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To: Tony Viola who wrote (95769)	1/12/2000 5:47:00 PM
From: Pigboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, << What is Infiniband? Another of your optical finds? Like to know. >> Hey Tony. Not happy with Lumme lately, so taking some out. As for Infiniband, I am very excited. I believe it is like the next bus, after PCI. Someone chime in if that is off. There were two competing standards and they came together to make Infiniband (to avoid the VHS Beta type wars). I think it seems interesting to keep an eye on. Here's an intersting article-- <<<<<<< Intel Invests In Ancor (12/08/99, 12:02 p.m. ET) By Joseph F. Kovar, Computer Reseller News Intel on Tuesday said that it invested $14.8 million in Ancor Communications, a producer of Fibre Channel switches. At the same time, Ancor, Eden Prairie, Minn., entered into an agreement with Intel to develop and market Fibre Channel switches based on the InfiniBand architecture. InfiniBand is a channel-based, switched fabric architecture expected to eventually provide a scalable performance range of 500 megabytes to 6 gigabytes per link. System and storage vendors who originally supported one of two competing specifications -- NGIO and FIO -- formed the InfiniBand Trade Association after they decided in August to combine resources to work together toward a single specification. Intel's investment is part of a plan to make sure clusters of Intel-based servers work together, said Carl Howe, research director for corporate infrastructure at Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass. "Since it's an investment and not an acquisition, it seems Intel is just trying to make sure the technology is available," Howe said. An Intel spokesman confirmed the company is looking for storage support for the next generation of I/O architecture for Intel-based servers. Intel recognizes that companies do not have unlimited resources to pursue all the alternatives, the spokesman said. If this investment encourages Ancor to work on InfiniBand, Intel will be pleased with the outcome, he said. Intel expects Ancor to be the first to market with a Fibre Channel switch for SANs that support the InfiniBand architecture, the spokesman said. In addition to Intel, the InfiniBand Trade Association's steering committee includes Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. Sponsoring vendors include 3Com, Adaptec, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, NEC, and Nortel Networks. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Even though Ancor has been taken outside the bard and shot recently, I still believe they are an excellent long termer and view dips into 30's as major buying opps. Infiniband switches next year, man. ;-) all imo pigboy