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To: Eleleth who wrote (11590)	10/21/1997 5:01:00 AM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Eleleth, burning the midnight oil too? I guess owning Ancor can make you do that sometimes <g>. Regarding Arcxel's Class 1 implementation and Ancor's patent, I can't say how Arcxel does it because I don't know, sorry. Perhaps some else does? However they do it, it may not be as elegant though, as deduced from their "less than 2 microsecond" (2000 nanosecond) latency. I would think the price point would be the salient issue, with Ancors' being able to weather competition with a higher margin? Regards and g'night for real, Douglas

To: Eleleth who wrote (11590)	10/21/1997 7:24:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Respond to of 29386

<<<Do you think Arcxel has done an end-run around Ancor's patent or have they paid royalties? Is Ancor's patent only for facilitating Class 1 instead of controlling Class 1? >>> FC is an ANSI protocol standard. Nobody can have a lock on a standard, period. Having said that, someone, such as Ancor can, however, invented a patent which allowed them to have a better aggregation technique(much better in term of scaling). Ancor's products are better in building larger networks. Other vendors can build products based on the ANSI standard. They would have a hard time building products equals to Ancor's scalability. Cisco is famous in patents which allows them to build products better than their competitors based on 'STANDARDS'.