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To: Allen Benn who wrote (8548)	9/27/2000 1:44:40 PM
From: Knight	Respond to of 10309

<An off-loaded TCP/IP stack is what the data-swamped IT community needs.> I can vouch for that. Until about a year ago I was an engineer working with data management products (hardware & software). The TCP/IP stack is a major CPU hog for network-data-intensive applications. Offloading of the TCP/IP stack and the move to switched bus architecture (Infiniband) are major (and overdue) steps forward. As Allen mentioned, offloading of the TCP stack will free up CPU resources. Also, a switched bus architecture should make systems more scalable. These two improvements will allow both general purpose and specialized computing systems to be created from commercial off-the-shelf commodity building blocks in a manner that provides the right balance of CPU and networking horsepower based on the needs of the application. In addition, this commoditization should also make the systems cheaper. In a nut shell: The new computing architecture will result in systems that are faster, more flexible, more scalable, and cheaper...and...it appears WIND is quickly becoming embedded in both the "building blocks" and the "connectors" of this architecture. Hmmm...does this sound like a mass market opportunity? And this is just a subset of WIND's opportunities. Gotta love it... :-)