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To: w2j2 who wrote (16839)	6/27/1998 7:47:00 AM
From: Neil S	Respond to of 29386

Perspective: techweb.com <<At the cabinet level, Fibre Channel is moving ahead like the Titanic: it's full speed ahead with no icebergs in sight," said Dal Allen, president of ENDL Consulting (Saratoga, Calif.). "The only down side right now is that there isn't a great deal of random selection. Fibre Channel isn't ready for blind compatibility testing yet. Everybody is buying solutions from one OEM to make sure all the pieces work together." >> <<While the standards groups wrangled over how to meld the two while providing backward compatibility with both SSA and Fibre Channel Abritrated Loop (FC-AL), the market froze."A year and a half ago, there was a lot of controversy and activity about FC-AL and SSA," said Rich Taborek, consulting architect at G2 Networks Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), and chairman of one of the key Fibre Channel committees. "Standards groups were focused on merging them into what was called FC-EL instead of getting FC-2 out. In late 1997, the FC-EL effort was effectively killed, and that decision told the disk-drive and host-bus adapter community that we were serious about getting FC-AL-2 completed. So they really started moving forward.">> <<"At the end of 1998, Fibre Channel will be less than 10 percent of the total market shipments for high-performance disk drives," said Shawn Hook, product marketing manager at Seagate Technology's High Performance Design Group (Oklahoma City). "I believe that by the end of 1999, Fibre Channel will be about 15 percent of the overall high-end market." >> Tape drives migrate to Fibre Channel techweb.com <<Moreover, Fibre Channel switching technology from the likes of Brocade Communications Systems (San Jose, Calif.) and Vixel (South Bothell, Wash.) allows multiple logical channels to be dynamically established between hosts and tape drives. That feature can be used to support concurrent unrelated backups, either from one high-capacity server or from several servers in a cluster. It can also support a very high-bandwidth single-stream backup when assisted by tape-striping software, such as the RAID option available with the Arcserve product from Computer Associates (Islandia, N.Y.).>>