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To: J Fieb who wrote (1829)	2/12/2000 5:11:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Respond to of 4808

>>When the switch fabric is doubled, it requires four times as many chips. And if they make the fabric 8 times bigger? We need some Dense FC components? Good for director class?<< Exactly J. Director class high port density switches require efficient crossbar design to overcome matrix scaling fault-tolerant complexity and latency challenges. For example, the recently announced HWP-Brocade configuration requires (3) Silkworm 2800 16-port switches to ensure no single point of failure redundancy. Using dual port controllers on devices, fault tolerant redundancy can be implemented in a single Director switch with hot-swappable port modules, port trays, fans, and power supplies. Expandable from 16 - 64 ports in 8 port increments, a Director yields economy of scale not achievable with fixed port switches. Brocade's reliance on FPGAs puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to designing fast and efficient large matrix cross connects. On this front, ASICs continue to rule. With Ancor's ASIC design expertise and CrossRoad's critical bridging patents, Intel chose its InfiniBand development partners well. Douglas