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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (26054)	2/9/2000 2:36:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

"If one can believe Yahoo..." Ed, You know my opinion of Yahoo. To quote Benner (1996): "In a multi-layer network, switches are connected to each other through "E_Ports" (Expansion Ports), which may use standard media, interface, and signaling protocols or may use other implementation-dependent protocols....," p31. Clearly there are other E-port implementations - if you read further in Benner you can see what they are. But I was talking more marketing strategy and mindshare than engineering. The letter posted today on the ancor.com was a good start at countering some of this. George

To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (26054)	2/9/2000 7:11:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

Here's HP's version. Notice HP stressed the word enrollment and HP will continue to announce additional vendors. biz.yahoo.com <<As part of HP's open SAN infrastructure, HP will be offering infrastructure components from multiple vendors. Today, HP is pleased to announce Agilent, Emulex, JNI and QLogic as the first HBA vendors to enroll in the program. HP also offers BROCADE's SilkWorm 2800 as part of HP's infrastructure product offering. ``BROCADE is delighted to be selected as the first connectivity framework for the HP Open SAN Initiative and to be a part of the interoperability program,' said Peter Tarrant, BROCADE vice president of marketing and business development. ``As the storage networking platform of choice for the industry's leading systems and storage device suppliers, BROCADE's SilkWorm will provide HP customers with optimal flexibility to mix and match storage solutions with minimal integration. The combination of BROCADE and HP solutions will help our mutual customers meet increasing storage needs while reducing the cost of storage environments.' HP will continue to announce additional vendors throughout the year.>>

To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (26054)	2/9/2000 7:28:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

<<Would that be so bad? Something has got to become the Standard upon which to base interop. If they persist in bearing the Standard, they will need to release their primitives-verbs-atomics whatever to open source>> I believe the E_port implementation of Brocade and Ancor just happens to be different, not one is better than the other. In order to be able to build ISLs between a Brocade switch and an Ancor switch, they have to agree on some parameters, hence open source from both parties. I can see down the road some degree of interop will occur. There can be more than one way of building ISLs. It does not have to be just one way, i.e. no need for a so call de-facto standard IMHO. Vixl, Zoox, Brcd and Ancr can continue to have their own proprietary E_port implementation and yet can build ISLs and whatever basic interop calls for. Much the same how Cisco can support the standard IP route scheme and yet has their own proprietary way.