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To: George Dawson who wrote (14932)	3/7/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: janski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

Quote from the article: " You'll see FC-AL as the backbone for Storage Area Networks (SAN), which link servers and storage devices. SANs consist of servers and storage devices linked via FC-AL routers. Typically, a server with both FC-AL and Ethernet interfaces serves to bridge between the SAN and an existing network. While you can technically bridge Fibre Channel to Ethernet, there aren't any products available. Instead, you'll have to add both Fibre and Ethernet interfaces directly to a server, creating a de facto bridge/router. Other implementations will add TCP/IP to the mix, allowing PCs to internetwork alongside storage devices on a FC-AL network." I suppose if SAN's develop into true network like entities with firmware inside the disk controllers(?) FC switch(?) smart enough to manage data integrity and the Ethernet/ATM adapters allowing work stations to be attached to the network directly the servers in between could go away? In smaller environments at least?