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To: buck who wrote (10275)	5/25/2000 8:42:00 PM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

Buck, <<And IMHO, the storage side is the toughest part. They will be forced to drive the IP processing down into silicon in order to compete with FC throughput and very low overhead. That silicon IP has only been successful to date in very high-end switches. >> I enjoyed reading your two posts on FC vs GE. On your point of moving the IP processing down into silicon, while it is true that it will offload the interrupts and IP processing from the CPU, now that the same interrupts and processing will be done at the edge instead. I highly doubt that in a highly utilized network, these edge devices can affort to take on the additional workload. Either the work is at the CPU or at the edge devices, it is simply inefficient IMO. performance will suffer either way. I wholeheartedly agree with you that a GE network can never achieve the kind of performance/throughput that a FC network can deliver regardless if it is 2 gig or 10 gig. Pressing down on the gas (hoping to go 200mph) paddle on a congested highway will guarantee collisions (pun intended for ethernet). Also, backward compatibility on old ethernet devices will be an issue IMO. KJ Moy