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To: Alan Aronoff who wrote (12553)	11/18/1997 1:39:00 PM
From: Neil S	Respond to of 29386

Interesting article from Var Business: VAR Business, November 15, 1997 November 15, 1997, Issue: 1320 Section: Feature ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>The technology's raw speed is only one aspect of its appeal. Its ability to support both networking and data storage protocols simultaneously means it allows merging the two into a single topology and puts some luster into the disaster-recovery arena. It was this capability that "first attracted us-because of the possibility of integrating high-performance storage access with network access," says Chris Hanson, manager of hardware, commercialization and operations at network integrator GeoQuest, a Houston division of Schlumberger. GeoQuest develops software and workgroups for use in oil and gas exploration environments, and "our applications and data generally expand to fill out available resources," he says. "What we started finding out in early 1996," Hanson explains, "is that two of the latest crop of workstations, such as Sun Microsystems Inc.'s UltraSPARCs, could saturate a 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet link. We had investigated Fast Ethernet and FDDI and understood the limits of 100 Mbps. We considered going to OC-3 (155-Mbps) ATM, but that's not a big enough jump." Consequently, GeoQuest has started integrating Ancor Communications Inc.'s GigWorks Fibre Channel switches and FCS adapters into its turnkey solutions. "A gigabit (transfer rate) was the natural place to go to," says Hanson.<< Also comments from EMF Associates, and mentions Jaycor, Prisia,AV Digital (remember them ?), and several other FC applications. techweb.com