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To: PAR who wrote (16879)	6/29/1998 9:16:00 AM
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EMC Expands Its Fibre Channel Reach_____________ EMC this week will ship Fibre Channel hub connectivity for its Symmetrix enterprise storage systems, which will allow for Fibre Channel speeds between EMC storage servers and a mix of Hewlett-Packard and Sun Unix servers. EMC implements the industry-standard Fibre Channel- Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) interface to connect computer and storage systems. Fibre Channel hubs are network devices that allow FC-AL connectivity among multiple servers, storage systems, and other hubs on a storage network. Hubs provide more-reliable connectivity, more connections, and greater distances than direct server-to-storage connectivity. The EMC Fibre Channel hubs, the HP hub from Gadzoox, and the Sun hub from Vixel Corp., will enable EMC customers to attach multiple servers to Symmetrix across 10 kilometers to start, vs. SCSI distances, which are measured in meters. Data throughput will also increase to 100 Mbytes per second. An analyst believes that EMC is proceeding correctly toward an open storage area network, employing hubs first until switch-based systems are viable. "EMC is now building its own storage networks with Fibre Channel hubs to achieve more distance, more things tied together, and more fault tolerance," says Michael Peterson, analyst with Strategic Research Corp. Peterson predicts that the open storage area network based on switches is at least 18 months away. -- Martin J. Garvey