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To: Boplicity who wrote (4097)8/22/2000 5:35:52 PM
From: Boplicity  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 10934
 
I ans. my own question. Tuesday August 22, 9:06 am Eastern Time
Press Release
Emulex Unveils InfiniBand Strategy for Storage Area Network Connectivity
Based On Its Market-Leading Fibre Channel LightPulse(TM) Architecture, Emulex is Well-Positioned to Enable Server and Storage Manufacturers to Migrate From Today's PCI Interface to InfiniBand
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000-- Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX - news), the world's largest supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters(1), Tuesday outlined its first generation of storage area network (SAN) access products based on InfiniBand technology.

For the rest article--> biz.yahoo.com

Greg

ps dump question anyhow, InfiniBand is an I/O based technology were as FC is a network based technology.



To: Boplicity who wrote (4097)8/22/2000 10:06:53 PM
From: DownSouth  Respond to of 10934
 
Infiniband is a real threat to FC. Ideally, I-band will solve the vendor interoperability problems of FC, for example. It is touted to be faster, cheaper, yadayada.