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To: George Dawson who wrote (16234)	5/18/1998 8:40:00 AM
From: Neil S	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

KJ, Craig: Robert Montague [Morgan Keegan analyst] on Fibre Channel and Clustering : <<We see two distinct applications emerging for deploying Fibre Channel in the enterprise network: data storage and server clustering.>> <<Fibre Channel is not the only server interconnect that can be used in clustering. Other feasible solutions include Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, SCSI, SSA, and ServerNet. However, Fibre Channel is clearly the highest performance solution among these choices as is shown in the following chart.>> <<Another reason that we believe Fibre Channel will win over ServerNet in the clustering space is that the latter is more of a proprietary technology. Compaq now "owns" ServerNet through its acquisition of Tandem. As a result, we believe that Compaq's server competition will prefer Fibre Channel since it is a vendor-independent technology. We have seen evidence of proprietary technologies in the I/O space lose out to Fibre Channel in the past. A good example is IBM's SSA technology, which did not win broad support of the storage industry because of limited support and a lack of a broad-based development.>> The full Morgan Keegan report on Fibre Channel is available to download [ in PDF format ] from the FCLC site if you haven't read it. fcloop.org Neil

To: George Dawson who wrote (16234)	5/18/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Respond to of 29386

George, from the gignet website <<< FIBRE CHANNEL AND THE NEW VIA INTERFACE Fibre Channel and Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) are a natural fit. Fibre Channel is a multi-protocol information connection technology with designed-in place holders for new high performance DMA-DMA remote data transfers. Fibre Channel implementations of VIA have demonstrated 20 microsec DMA to DMA transfer times for remote systems. With VIA over Fibre channel more than 20K IOPS implementations are possible. A Fibre channel hardware implementation and software elements will be described. Fibre Channel can combine VIA along with Standard SCSI or IP methods on the same interconnect. Many future applications can be built upon this new infrastructure.>>> Great find. 'A natural fit', took the words right out of my mouth. For some lurkers, VIA is an API interface being pushed by Microsoft, Compaq, Intel? and some others as the centerpiece(software side) for clustering. KJ