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To: Fang Li who wrote (16815)	6/26/1998 12:05:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

"During the testing phase, Howell was assisted by Ancor, whose engineers helped tune the switches. The session included running Ancor's NetPerf testing software, which took about 30 minutes to execute. NetPerf tells engineers the actual speed of the Fibre Channel pipe. Howell says the testing tool is valuable to gauge the network's true efficiency. By mid-March, IGS was achieving 94% of Fibre Channel's theoretical speed of 100MBps per loop. With ATM, Howell says he's lucky if he can get 60% to 70% efficiency." I don't know how they would make a negative announcement based on this article. It is further evidence of FC superiority over ATM in this setting (I wish they would have posted a comparison to GE) and it gives us some valid 3rd party data on the performance of Ancor switches. This is *exactly* the way to market this stuff. My only question was whether they were referring to actual FCAL loops here. If they are I would take it as a good sign. I will attempt to confirm. George D.