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To: Triffin who wrote (19639)	3/9/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Respond to of 54805

Jim, Here is the InfiniBand Trade Association site: sysio.org I think 10GB Ethernet developments and players are covered pretty well by the Gilder guys and gals, you might want to go ask them. I don't follow it much myself, sorry. Douglas

To: Triffin who wrote (19639)	3/9/2000 8:58:00 PM
From: nick chacos	Respond to of 54805

In December, Intel signed an agreement with Ancor to develop the switches to be used in the Infiniband Architecture. See: ancor.com It is my further recollection, source uncertain, that Intel is simply pushing to get I-band products selling as quickly as possible (within 18 months, they hope) and that Ancor will be entitled to keep all intellectual property which they may generate during the development of the switch. There might be a proprietary standard lurking in that IP. It puzzles me that Brocade claimed at the time of the Intel/Ancor announcement that Intel had approached them long before Ancor, but that they (Brocade) declined to get involved. Although it is a ways off,I can envision an I-band switching chip on every motherboard of every electronic gizmo which will handle the I/O requirements of connecting it with the world. If Ancor gets their proprietary IP in that chip, it would seem to offer tornado potential in which Ancor could find itself. I don't think there would be any chasm hazards, as the I-band members would all have grappling hooks on Ancor, dragging them across as fast as they could (Intel, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Cisco, etc. etc.)