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To: Eleder2020 who wrote (27044)	5/18/2000 10:35:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 29386

"So the competition isn't really between NAS and SANs but between GE and FC- GE positioning themselves as alternative to the SANs and the fact that NAS can work off of GE is just another GE argument is using to compete with FC. NAS comes up a winner either way." Ed, A couple of additions here and I will need to footnote Dr. R. again and my conversation with him. The cost of optics is currently very high for a 10 Gbps GE NIC. On the storage side, the margins on disk drives are very thin and this creates some inertia on that side of things for adding more throughput or interfaces on those disks. We have already seen the idea that magnetic storage will be replaced - debunked. In fact, it is documented in Hennessey and Patterson's text as a fallacy. If you consider that the disk throughput and latency is probably the last thing in the chain to improve, there will need to be some kind of switching on the storage side of the NIC. Contrary to Gilder, I don't think that the storage that you just plug in to a 10 Gbps LAN will be all that "dumb". George