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To: The Freep who wrote (14329)	2/13/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: Lhn5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

This week every single finger is pointing up: suretrade.stkwtch.com

To: The Freep who wrote (14329)	2/14/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 29386

Freep, The Media One network looks like a standard SONET/ATM network to me with the system switched through Cisco routers and Fore ATM switches. Although I am not up to speed on the video standards listed under the D-One network, I don't think it involves fibre channel. The D probably refers to "digital stream" from the North American Digital Hierarchy - a standard developed by Bell Labs for multiplexing various data streams. The DS3 rate is 44.736 Mbps and DS4 is 274.176 Mbps. Hopefully in networks like this there is room for FC SANs to store all of this data for future reference. It would seem to me that you could also run an FC LAN/SAN and interface with this network, but this is really where FC is up against it-all of the telephony based technologies will push SONET/ATM and in the future WDM/DWDM. Ancor also seems to have lost the Hollywood edge with no further special effects mentioned since Independence Day. The recent summer special effects movie - Starship Troopers used Fore ATM switches for special effects. I can't see where any of their channel partner deals with firms active in special effects, movies, or video editing have produced any tangible results. If you look long and hard enough on the web, you can still find the tesimonials from the special effects guy who ran his own optical fiber from his SGI workstations to a different part of his building and plugged it into an Ancor switch. But there does not appear to be much of an effort ot target movie or video production. George D.