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To: Craig Stevenson who wrote (16049)	5/1/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: Mike Fredericks	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

I'm a grad student at the University of Maryland, and as I walked in the CS/EE building today I saw that HP was here for a technology expo. Basically demoing a bunch of products to the EE faculty to convince them to buy them for their labs. I'm no EE so most of the stuff doesn't make sense, but I did note that one of the 20 or so products that they were demoing was a "Fibre Channel/Gigabit Ethernet Waveform Analyzer." HP obviously thinks there's a demand for the product or else they wouldn't have built it. Or maybe it was so trivial to add the FC part to the Gigabit Ethernet analyzer that they stuck it on there. I know nothing about the low-level network stuff to know how much FC and GE have in common there. I didn't bother talking to anyone about the product because everyone else was in a suit and I was in a t-shirt and jeans. Of course I would (coincidentally) choose today of all days to wear my Ancor t-shirt ;-). -Mike

To: Craig Stevenson who wrote (16049)	5/1/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Craigs1, Not to get off of the subject of your prior post ... but to get back to IBM. I have found something I think is telling in a 21-April-98 press release. Maybe it sheds new information, maybe it doesn't, but the misspelling of 'fiber' by using 'fibre' in the same sentence that talks about storage nodes being 2.4 kms away is interesting. Check this out: "The 7190-200 exploits the advantage of the UltraSCSI interface that has a data transfer rate between the storage and server complex of up to 40MB/second, twice the maximum data transfer rate of SCSI-2 F/W interface. The 7190-200 allows serial disk storage systems to be shared among Sun, HP and Digital servers. Fibre-optic extenders enable the 7133 serial disk systems to be geographically separated by up to 2.4 kilometers, an advantage for remote storage facilities." biz.yahoo.com Craig