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To: George Dawson who wrote (15862)	4/23/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: Craig Stevenson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

George, For the most part, I agree with this engineer. It is extremely easy to totally saturate a Fast Ethernet link, even with a couple of low-end Pentiums. As a big pipe for aggregating a bunch of Fast Ethernet links, Gigabit Ethernet should be ideal. The problem as I see it is that there is no way to DIRECTLY connect Fast Ethernet to Fibre Channel. Maybe my vision of SANs is different, but I see the huge installed base of Fast Ethernet wanting to connect directly to Fibre Channel SANs, without necessarily having to go through Gigabit Ethernet first. That's why I would like to see some FE ports on Ancor's GE/FC router. Think about the early adopters of Fibre Channel SANs, who may not have implemented Gigabit Ethernet yet. If those FE ports aren't present, they will have to get to GE first! That doubles the learning curve. The best of both worlds for the volume segment of this market would be something like a mini MKII, with 4 FC/AL ports, a couple of GE ports, and 12, 16, or 24 FE ports. That way, one box could connect to ANYTHING. There may be some technical reasons why Ancor has evidently chosen not to take this route, but that's what I'd like to see. It would also fire a shot across the bow of the big networkers regarding LAN to SAN connectivity. That should make Ancor's technology more valuable. (Or a better target. <g>) Craig