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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (15787)	4/17/1998 8:25:00 AM
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EMC To Offer Fibre-Channel Switches___ EMC Corp. by year's end will offer a new storage infrastructure featuring Fibre Channel switches, which the company says will speed data moving between servers and storage systems. The Fibre Channel switches will offer a high-speed alternative to Ethernet and the SCSI interconnect, the technology now used to move data between servers and the Symmetrix storage subsystem. The switches will eliminate point-to-point connections between server and storage. An unlimited number of servers and storage systems can be connected to a switch and the switches themselves can be networked together. That will make the infrastructure easier to administer, maintain, and manage--once Fibre Channel switching management is stable, something thatis probably a year away, according to industry analysts. At present, no other storage vendor offers a storage infrastructure based on Fibre Channel switches. In addition to the ease of management, EMC says the switches will significantly boost speed. Fibre Channel speeds today are 100 Mbps, but EMC expects 200 Mbps within 18 months, and 400 Mbps beyond that. -- Martin J. Garvey Information Week