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To: janski who wrote (14922)	3/6/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: janski	Respond to of 29386

FC writeup. Looks like other people are looking for those Ethernet or ATM interfaces as well. zdnet.com

To: janski who wrote (14922)	3/6/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Pigboy	Respond to of 29386

janski, 'zoning' really does sound interesting. I have heard rumors that things weren't too hot with sequent and brocade. maybe these are false. << Mike Sillitto, director of operations with Rich Products Corp., a large food manufacturer based in Buffalo, N.Y. "Digital had a really shaky server plan. If this goes in as a Compaq product, then it has a definite possibility of making market penetration." >> I didn't realize that DEC's server products stunk. IS this really true? It will be interesting to see what exactly comes out of the software FC realm bc of the obvious co-use of NT and Unix in the future. all imho pigboy

To: janski who wrote (14922)	3/7/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

<<On Brocade/Sequent. Perhaps someone can figure out what this "Zoning" software from Brocade is all about?>> This concept of Sequent's is not new. It's running in the IBM mainframe world for decades(yes, it's more than 20). I can guess what this "Zoning" is all about. A large server such as this one from Sequent has a finite numbers of channels, for storage and clustering. Some numbers of these channels are connected to Brocade's switch ports. Prior to running a single image operating system on a single image server, the switch port should only expect 1 address from the operating system. With this multiple operating systems running on a single image server, the same switch port should now expect to see multiple addresses. My guess is that the rest of the FC switching protocol is the same old way(IEEE standard). The twist is now that one switch port has to handle multiple addresses coming from a single image server running multiple operating systems. Bear in mind, it is still one address can xmit/receive at any given time.