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To: w2j2 who wrote (25843)	1/29/2000 2:04:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 29386

WJ- I know you will like the thought that BIG switches and SAN management may be a "natural" solution. From the same SSB material........on why NAS companies like NTAP will be interested in FC capability.... When NAS is Scaled, it becomes a SAN Although the NAS architecture is technically scalable, in so doing, it becomes more complex and loses its original appeal of simplicity. When NAS scales, it also increases traffic on an already burdened LAN............When scaling a NAS architecture, it makes the most sense to us (with today's technologies) to merge NAS and SAN architectures to achive the most efficient results. For this reason, we believe that SAN and NAS architectures complement one another when a NAS architecture is scaled . Come on ANCR put FC in the NAS. Scalability has also been an issue with NAS appliances as a result of their historically small capacities. Traditionally, NAS appliances have scaled to approximately 1.5 Terabytes (today this compares to some of the larger disk subsystems vendors that are shipping 10+ terabytes per subsystem). Some NAS companies are currently shipping evaluation units with higher capacities, but as the NAS scales to larger capacities and multiple subsystems, it results in a more complex architecture and loses its original simplicity. SSB-Seems like they would start coverage on ANCR when they announce the first win with the BIG SANbox.