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To: Patrick Sharkey who wrote (16456)	6/5/1998 8:19:00 AM
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McData To Boost Its Storage Offering___ McData Corp. next week will introduce a product aimed at improving the movement of data over Fibre Channel storage systems. The product, called the ED-5000 enterprise Fibre Channel director, is just one-third the price of the only other Fibre Channel director on the market. While a comparable director from Computer Network Technology has been selling for $300,000, the ED-5000 will be priced at $50,000 to $100,000. The product also represents the first time McData--which has traditionally sold to vendors and other systems integrators--is targeting the end-user market. The ED-5000, which ships this month, has error-detection and recovery to keep corrupt data from getting through, hardware component redundancy to ensure reliability, and 32 ports. These ports push data through at an aggregate rate of 3,200 Mbytes per second--much more than typical Fibre Channel speeds of 100 Mbytes per second, a level that often isn't achieved because of the arbitrated nature of the interconnect framework. Michael Peterson, an analyst with Strategic Research Corp., says relying on hubs and switches for data movement can't compare with using a higher-priced director such as the ED- 5000; the first two devices just keep sending data along, even if it's corrupt, for example. Peterson describes Fibre Channel directors as the most sophisticated tool for moving data. --Martin J. Garvey