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To: Vikas Deolaliker who wrote (3092)	4/15/2001 2:49:05 AM
From: David A. Lethe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

First, "TCP" is not less reliable. I don't want to turn this into a protocol tutorial, but there is TCP/IP, and TCP/UDP. UDP is not reliable, but IP is. As for using video on FC, consider what happens when a new device is added to the FC SAN. You have to do a LIP. Traffic stops, and you loose 100% of the frames. So, both FC and TCP/IP have issues. Infiniband? It really won't take off until something like DAFS is ready, so you are looking at Q4. Many vendors are doing a wait-and-see on this technology, and the only UNIX that will support it for now is Solaris. The IBM/HP/SGI's haven't done anything with it, and even SUN doesn't officially support it. Nobody is going to use infiniband in the datacenter w/o the mfg's support. Period.