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To: Eleder2020 who wrote (12505)	11/15/1997 8:08:00 PM
From: Nine_USA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

science.nas.nasa.gov (undated, but doesn't hurt to know Nasa is a customer .. HH) Fibre Channel Fibre Channel (FC) is a versatile technology, defined by the Fibre Channel Standard (FCS), that offers both circuit switching and packet switching at multiple data rates [14]. Fibre Channel topologies include point-to-point, loop, or switch (which is called a fabric). Information can flow between two ports in both directions simultaneously. The data is sent in frames that are maximum 2148 bytes long (2048 bytes data, 64 bytes optional header, and 36 bytes for addresses and link control information). For this work, we used the Ancor MCA CIM 250 Interface Adapter and Ancor CXT 250 Fibre Channel Switch which has a 25 Mbytes/s data rate per port [1]. The CXT switch is a two-dimensional switching architecture that uses both space-division and time-division interconnection techniques. Space division switching allows direct connections between nodes on the network while time division switching allows time-multiplexed connections among all nodes on the network.

To: Eleder2020 who wrote (12505)	11/16/1997 9:59:00 AM
From: Steve Scribe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

<<<They try to develop products in house, set standards, get patents and when that fails they wait and buy the best available company to position themselves in the targeted market.>>> Looks like SSA turned out just like OS2. IBM once again failed in their attempt to set and control the standards themselves. Now they have conceded defeat and are going with Fibre Channel (an open standard). You raise another possible scenario. Ancor does several storage OEM's next year including one with company X. Company X uses the Ancor MKII switch as part of their FC storage product line. Company X is very successfull and IBM buys the company. Now IBM uses their sales and marketing muscle to greatly expand company X's sales. Now Ancor has IBM selling their switch. That's a scenario I wouldn't mind seeing. Regards, Steve